Knights Vs. Samurai #4 // Review
The warriors from the east and the Warriors from the west have met. And they've found it very difficult to get along. It's perfectly understandable. Neither one of them speaks the others language. So naturally, they are going to be problems. But they are going to be even bigger problems when a giant serpentine dragon attacks both of the in Knights Vs. Samurai #4. Writer David Dasmalchian continues his fantasy adventure, conflict aided by artist Fede Mele and colorist Ulises Arreola. Two different opposing groups meeting the threat of a common monster serves as an interesting progression in the latest issue.
They were kind of compromised. The nights were without their weapons. For the most part anyway. Everybody dealt with it in a different way. There was actually one rather large gentleman who threw a rock at the dragon. There's a hell of a lot of bravery in that. There's also a great deal of stupidity. But when a simple misunderstanding between a couple of opposing forces results in a clever solution to the problem, things might just turn out to be something less than fatal for both the knights AND the samurai...if only they. and get along for long enough to make it work.
Dasmalchian has been delicately weaving the story for quite some time a certain bit of foreshadowing had led to this ultimate showdown with this particular creature. There was a lot of suggestion that a two groups would unite at some point. And it just had to happen at just the right time. And the right conflicts had to present themselves. It's a pretty simple formula. But it is actually pretty fun. Seeing it play out the way it does. It's been an interesting journey so far. It's not hard to imagine exactly how the issue is going to run based on Dasmalchian’s pacing.
Mele and Arreola find a distinct pattern to follow with respect to the conflict between the humans and the serpent. The creature's movements and motions feel distinctly unlike anything that would move around on the land. And that's a fairly simple accomplishment, however, the conflict between some thing as massive and overwhelming as the dragon is and a bunch of human warriors can be difficult to bring across on the page. And the ridiculously massive discrepancy between the humans and the dragon can be difficult to bring across on the page. The art team doesn't brilliant job here of really showing how devastating this force is a number of different scenes.
And actually, it's kind of fun seeing how the solution ultimately comes about from what could essentially be kind of a misunderstanding. And that this solution would not have presented itself for not for the fact that there was a fundamental misunderstanding between the two of them. This circumstances of being able to communicate actually creates solution that would not have been there otherwise. It's actually an extremely clever way of bringing the two together. And it works really well.
