The Light #2

Written by Nathan Edmondson
Art by Brett Weldele

The second issue of Edmondson's new horror comic continues to impress.  Coyle and his daughter, Avery, continue to flee the strange goings on in their town.  Basically, it's becoming more and more apparent that people who look into electrical light are getting infected with something, and burn up within minutes.  It seems that light sources that are not connected to the grid, like car headlights and airplanes, are safe.

Coyle wants only to keep his daughter and himself safe, while Avery wants to go to Portland to look for her mother.  A plane crash on the road in front of them changes both their minds, and they settle to look for some place safe to hide out, presumably until morning.

I really like this book.  Edmondson is great at building up a sense of suspense, while Weldele continues to draw some of the best work of his career.  I particularly like the way he is colouring this book, and allowing the light to become a tangible thing on the page.  Beams of light feel like they have weight to them, and the reader becomes very aware of the luminosity of each page.

The only complaint I have about this issue is that it doesn't make sense to me that Coyle wouldn't be scanning the airwaves for a radio station that might be able to tell him (and us) something about what's going on.  Even if most stations are off the air (I don't imagine any DJ other than Venus Flytrap broadcasts by candle light), it seems like it would have been a necessary scene.