The Tin Can Society #1 // Review
He’s dead. There really isn't any questioning that at all. She crosses the yellow and black strip the police line to get a few photographs. Of course it's a murder. But it's not just any murder. very few murders involving large electromagnet under the floorboards. And though the gentleman in question was many things to many people, he was something special to her. He was a friend. In order to figure out what happened, she’s going to have to get The old gang back together in The Tin Can Society #1. Writer Peter Warren and co-storyteller Rick Remender open a whole new series with artist Francesco Mobili and colorist Chris Chuckry.
He was always pretty frail. His parents belong to a religious group that didn't believe in medical science. And that was only going to make matters worse for him as he had serious health issues that saw him wheelchair bone from a very early age. Maybe it was their support but found him becoming the kind of success he would become later on my life. Maybe some kind of a problem with that. Because she is taking the pictures, fairly confident that one of them had ben responsible for his death.
Warren does a really good job of letting the reader in on just isolated bits of story that gradually deliver the complexity of what might have gone on to cause this person to come to his untimely demise. And so it's really difficult to tell exactly what it is that's going on. And the mystery is very definitely put to the page from the beginning. There is a lot of exposition or anything like that. The reader is launched straight into a various bits and fragments of story that will gradually weave together in a way that should be really interesting.
Mobili frozen so many different forms of detail around the edges of everything. It all feels very well executed. It feels like there's a solid amount of background information was thrown into every panel, but in a way that might not necessarily be all that obvious. And the center of it all it's a very real and heartwarming sort of a emotional connection that seems to b developed in an around the ensemble. The contrast between the ensemble of characters in youth and their subsequent incarnations years later are brilliantly brought to the page in deeply emotional resonance.
In addition to the standard ensemble murder mystery dynamic, there’s a superhero genre element that’s drawn into the background of the series. This makes for a distinctly interesting situation with regard to the overall setting of the series. It's definitely a superhero comic book. However, there's a lot more going on here than it would normally be in a traditional superhero drama. The fact that the superhuman powers rest just on the edge of the center of everything is actually very refreshing. Really it's just a story about people who happened to live in a world that features some remarkable powers. Very interesting stuff.
Grade: A
