6/6/2023 0 Comments The black monday murders vol 1This is only the first act of what promises to be a grim, skilled drama. Coker’s noir art style is a perfect match for this brutal story, with the colors provided by Michael Garland leaning heavily on black and red. As one has come to expect from Jonathan Hickman, the atmosphere is dark, laden with threat and violence. Daniel’s death also presents an opportunity for his twin sister, Grigoria, to return from her long banishment and take up the Rothschild seat as well as to seek retribution for both her banishment and her brother’s death. The ruling families are often at loggerheads and murder is committed. Theodore Dumas, an officer who keeps his grandfather’s finger bones in the same drawer as his handgun. The crime calls for the unorthodox skills of Det. Daniel Rothschild, current holder of the Rothschild seat in the banking cartel that controls much of the world’s economy, has been found ritually murdered. After setting the scene with the crash of 1929, the story moves to various locations in the present, interspersed with “redacted files” that reinforce the atmosphere of conspiracies and cover-ups. Hickman (East of West) opens the curtain on this tale of a cabal and the trail of bodies they leave behind, all in the service of Mammon.
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