It’s a hard life when you’ve got Wire Hangers intermingled within and without your entire body. You have to live your life as a recluse, hiding amongst the homeless, hiding the wounds a freak set of circumstances inflicted. Lest not forgot trying to cope with the mental scars carried from the sight of your mother hung from that tree.
To make matters worse, it really isn’t your day when you have an ex Central Intelligence director trying to set you up as the serial killer that’s been running around the City
Its a hard life being the City’s wash out detective. Investigating, but not being able to stop death after death. Pills help, prostitutes help, but the one thing that will make things better would be to solve the case. Surely the establishment wouldn’t make life harder by standing in your way?
This issue concentrates on the thrills rather than the horror. Our wired protagonist Cypra is stuck deep under New York city, between the NYPD and General Lazar’s ‘Feds’. They have a potential Serial Killer to take in, if they can agree who will take the glory. It’s Barillo who gets most of the scene time this issue, he might not be the straightest detective in the police force… okay he’s FAR from the straightest detective on the police force, but he’s in a position to finally start joining up the dots and getting to the bottom of the “Suicide King Killer” case and he does it in his own inimitable way.
The twist and turns are definitely not the only thing that make this book something you feel you constantly have to gorge on. The artwork is some of the most atmospheric art appearing on the comic shelves at the moment. It’s the juxtaposition of a cast that are that tiny bit more caricatured than an average superhero book, put against a hugely realistic backdrop. Whether it’s the sight of Barillo drinking in a pub barely lit by the television in the corner or the freezing cold atmosphere amid the sheen of the city morgue each panel will draw you in.
If I were still giving marks out of 10 for my reviews, Wire Hangers would have to get a 9. It's a story that draws you in so much deserves no less.
Wire Hangers is published by IDW Publishing. Pretty much everything bar the lettering is done by Alan Robert, and it has a cover price of $3.99.
You’ll find it on the shelves on Wednesday the 7th of July.
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