I was never really into comics growing up. This was for a few reasons, I didn’t know anyone who was into comics, there wasn’t a comic book store near me so there was zero exposure, and I wasn’t all that big into superheroes or mutants.
With things like V for Vendetta and Watchmen, I did read those graphic novels. V for Vendetta after the fact since I didn’t know, and Watchmen cause I had heard it was complex and I borrowed it from a friend before the movie came out.
So like a lot of people I just didn’t really know what comic culture is about. But I found this one that really has me hooked, it’s called Scarlet by Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev, rather well known in the comic industry.
It’s a really intense story about a girl whose boyfriend is killed by a cop, finds that the corruption goes pretty high up and she wants to stop it. It sounds pretty cliche, but that’s fine with me. Bendis’ writing is great and the artwork by Maleev is amazing.
From the beginning Scarlet breaks the fourth wall, and it sucks you in, and the artwork is right where it should be, it’s realistic but with color distortion you feel a little out of sorts and off balance from the rest of the world. Its like Alice in Wonderland and realizing the world really isn’t what you thought it was.
It’s a bi-monthly comic that only just started this past summer. It’s put out by Icon Comics a division of Marvel.
