Sweetie Candy Vigilante #5 // Review
The islands are receiving a visitor who flies around on butterfly wings. Doctor Faerie Wilder has arrived to join the party with the weirdly warped Candy land crowd in Sweetie Candy Vigilante #5. Writer Suzanne Cafiero and artist Thiago Vale tale Sweetie for a spin once more in an issue featuring coloring work by Antonio Fabela It’s a cute and cuddly foray into dark action that continues to feel like a pleasantly disorienting mash-up between various different genres and sub genres of fantasy action as they make it to the page in a hazy dream that flows through the panels.
Dr. Wilder has been working with Sweetie to design weapons that only work on pure evil. Those who are born malevolent have a specific coding in their DNA that Sweety’s weapons have been specifically formulated for. Only the truly evil will be harmed. Naturally a visit from the doctor MUST be a good thing, right? What else could it possibly be? Castle Candy Skull DOES, however, have an unintended, unannounced visitor. He’s posing as an inspector from environmental protection. Sweetly and her squad are on to the ruse. rlThey’re going to have to respond to the matter discretely. There’s no telling what’s looking-in on them.
Cafiero is developing a lot of ideas that might be handled a little bit better if they were more integrated with the rest of the action. The mixture of weird fantasy and science-fiction is fun. The overall feel of the atmosphere is pretty interesting as well. It’s not realm of fantasy. That’s been explored a whole lot. But it would be cool to see action drawn into the background a little bit more. As it is, things aren’t really integrated all that well. All the characters seem genuinely interesting, though.
Vale continues to create a rubbery kind of world that mixes a bit with a harder edge of action. However, it’s a tricky and delicate balance to try to maintain. And every now and again, they just watch kind of goofy without having any minutes at the center of it. Overall, though, the distinct a look and feel of the series is maintained with some very wash, and Rich embellishment on the part of Fabela. The series’ colors continue to grant a rich and sugary feeling to the page. It’s impressive stuff that continues to make the series feel very distinct and very beautiful in its own way.
The series is such a weird hybrid of so many different things. Given the right momentum, I could really turned into something really interesting. As it is Cafiero and company seem to be sketching out. The initial premise of this year is even this far in.
There are a lot of ideas to develop around the edges of the action. The specific blend of magic and science seems kind of fun, and it would be really interesting to have it integrate better with this lol the adventure. This will be particularly easy as some of the technology being explored is that which only works on villains. It’s a clever idea for an explanation for this sort of thing. It wouldn’t be difficult to integrate that into the action, directly and more of a direct adventure that didn’t realize so heavily on exposition.
