Saturday, February 26, 2011

Echoes #3

Written by Joshua Hale Fialkov
Art by Rahsan Ekedal

Alright, this title is getting ever creepier, as Brian, the young man who only recently discovered that his father was a serial killer, descends deeper into his own madness.  Brian is pretty certain now that he has kidnapped and murdered a young girl, and made a doll out of her body.  He has no memory of it (at least, he's not admitting to any memory of it), but he knows it has to be true.

He decides to go to the police detective that he met last issue, but when he does, he instead describes a possible suspect that he's fabricated.  When that description ends up matching a brain damaged man that he knew in high school, he begins to go along with the detective, even going so far as to visit the man's house with him.

It's pretty clear that something strange is going on, and perhaps if Brian weren't so confused and lost in his own schizophrenia, he'd have recognized that this cop is really weird.  I feel like there's some sort of conspiracy going on, but I don't know how that's really going to play out.  Fialkov is definitely structuring an interesting plot, and Ekedal's art on this issue looks more finished and polished than previous issues.  This is a very cool little series.

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