Color sets scene tone effectively - greys and sepias for our present day, a bright mid-century neon palette for the Las Vegas of the 1950s with a little bit of black and white (or blue and white) thrown in for moments when color isn’t necessary to convey a mood or emotion. It’s the first ever panel layout of this type I have seen, and it certainly caught my eyes. The middle of the book features a landscape-oriented two page spread of Jayne Mansfield, which doesn’t seem to serve much for the plot but bends the rules of comics art beautifully. Narrative road bumps aside, there are some great creative risks with art, for which high praise is due to Menton3. We’ll have to wait until the concluding book to see if this can be done. into this story, and wrapping it up in just one more issue in a concise, clear, manner requires great skill. Figuring in aliens, Fidel Castro, the mob, and Mulder Sr. I also have serious reservations about the brevity of this miniseries (only two issues), especially as there was a lot of narrative threads thrown the reader’s way in this debut. Why give us these characters as headliners when you barely use them? Scully only makes a brief appearance in the opening pages for some witty banter with her partner, and even Mulder’s appearances are minimal. Take out Mulder and Scully and it could be any duo investigating a most notorious American controversy and finding familial ties where you hoped there were none. Like the “Dog Days of Summer” series, this appears to be just an original story with the classic characters shoehorned in for some name recognition. With “X-Files” comics, results are uneven at best, and this miniseries is no different. Try as I might, the X-Files comics and I have a bit of a rocky relationship. A graphic adaptation of any existing property has to find balance between being complete fan service to those who love the original work and providing enough exposition to allow new fans to jump on without feeling 100 percent lost. The scene then flashes back to 1950s Las Vegas, where ties with the mob, Fidel Castro, and aliens (you had to see that one coming) all seem to have a hand in setting the stage for the grassy knoll. For obvious reasons, this makes Mulder nervous, and he’s off to a man’s deathbed for a confessional. One mysterious phone call to Mulder reveals that his father had a hand in the incident, and that fact will become very public very soon. Those theories on who killed JFK just keep on coming, don’t they? Timed to coincide with the release of the last batch of classified files from the government on November 22, 1963, the newest X-Files book is a miniseries putting Mulder and Scully in the thick of the action. For Fox Mulder, this search for the truth about who killed the President that may or may not be out there uncovers some long-held family secrets, and he’s in the position to choose between blood loyalty and a quest for answers.
Your favorite paranormal duo of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully find themselves investigating something far more elusive than Area 51 - what happened on the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963. So this is what is in those classified Kennedy documents that just got released to the public this week.
0 kommentar(er)
