The story is no less difficult to parse visually. Moira soon discovers that her end may be nigh regardless of whether Mystique catches up with her, foreshadowed by Cory Petit's black hacking cough sounds turning blood red. One is as simple as inverting the usual black-and-white color scheme of Tom Muller's data pages, making deathly black the primary hue. A thrilling chase requires momentum, and that's constantly broken in X Deaths of Wolverine #1 by the need to double back and unpack these clumsy visuals.īut Moira's looming death seeps into the comic in other ways. There are ambitious layouts hampered by poor execution and lack of depth, making everything appear on the same plane with no focus. Cluttered artwork hampers that effort, making pages challenging to decipher. Writer Benjamin Percy and artist Federico Vicentini attempt to turn this into a Hollywood thriller-style chase across continents. Thus, Mystique becomes the reaper chasing after Moira as she flees Krakoa for her old home in Scotland. The issue includes a text page in which Destiny tells Mystique a parable about a man who, after spotting Death in New York, tries to escape to New Orleans, only to learn that New Orleans is where Death always planned to meet him.
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