The Ghost Fleet #3
"In a situation like that, fear spreads like wildfire"
Writer: Donny Cates
Artist: Daniel Warren Johnson
Publisher: Dark Horse
In its third issue, The Ghost Fleet loses a bit of its high octane tenacity but ups the ante on its emotional and inter-personal elements to great, albeit different from previous issue, success.
Cates is writing a complex, interesting story full of very real and believable characters responding to extraordinary circumstances and situations. Trace is a grizzled, changed and vicious man these years later, a real killer, but one who won’t turn away from his dog. Ward is a man who is willing to hire the most brutal gun-for-hire he knows to hunt down his old friend but also, one who makes a desperate pleading and warning call before setting that same mercenary loose. It’s a dynamic and engrossing story that’s perfectly punctuated by moments of visceral action and taunt, cryptic and high-thinking conspiracy story elements.
Daniel Warren Johnson, is, again a deft and unparalleled visual portrayer of those same elements. His characters and scenes, Trace in particular, have real and shocking grit and edge. That initial fight scene, the follow-up to last issue’s cliffhanger, is a compelling and entertaining stretch of 80s or 90s action flick badassery. Even in dialogue scenes like those between Cohle and Ward, the tension is palpable and almost a character all its own. This is all due to the way Johnson orchestrates these scenes, of course.
Some readers may be frustrated by the cryptic nature of the story, feeling like its treading water by only giving so much each issue. I say to them, just wait. I can tell this comic is something special.
Writer: Donny Cates
Artist: Daniel Warren Johnson
Publisher: Dark Horse
In its third issue, The Ghost Fleet loses a bit of its high octane tenacity but ups the ante on its emotional and inter-personal elements to great, albeit different from previous issue, success.
Cates is writing a complex, interesting story full of very real and believable characters responding to extraordinary circumstances and situations. Trace is a grizzled, changed and vicious man these years later, a real killer, but one who won’t turn away from his dog. Ward is a man who is willing to hire the most brutal gun-for-hire he knows to hunt down his old friend but also, one who makes a desperate pleading and warning call before setting that same mercenary loose. It’s a dynamic and engrossing story that’s perfectly punctuated by moments of visceral action and taunt, cryptic and high-thinking conspiracy story elements.
Daniel Warren Johnson, is, again a deft and unparalleled visual portrayer of those same elements. His characters and scenes, Trace in particular, have real and shocking grit and edge. That initial fight scene, the follow-up to last issue’s cliffhanger, is a compelling and entertaining stretch of 80s or 90s action flick badassery. Even in dialogue scenes like those between Cohle and Ward, the tension is palpable and almost a character all its own. This is all due to the way Johnson orchestrates these scenes, of course.
Some readers may be frustrated by the cryptic nature of the story, feeling like its treading water by only giving so much each issue. I say to them, just wait. I can tell this comic is something special.
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