Inkblot #5 // Review
It's a black cat that accidentally stumbled into existence. That would be confusing enough for any creature, but this one happens to have the inadvertent ability to travel through time and space. The woman who inadvertently created her is going to need to keep a closer eye on the cat, which she's going to find that much more difficult as Inkblot reaches its fifth issue. Artist/writer Emma Kubert amps up the fantasy in another issue with collaborator Rusty Gladd. The specifics of the danger posed to the world by a single black cat continue to be appealing and yet another adorably strange issue.
Inkblot, the cat, finds itself somewhere in the primordial African continent In an era long before its creation. The cat's creator has vowed to what a bit more closely for it. However, what about things being what they are? She may find keeping an eye on the cat a bit more difficult. One of her siblings runs into the creature and quickly finds out just how dangerous the little cat actually is—all the more reason to keep an eye on the wide-eyed, little thing.
Kubert and Gladd Are taking your time in developing the story of Inkblot. Has been jumping around a lot in a way that allows the readers just enough time with a cat to understand a bit more about it. This particular issue is very light on the verbal. Visuals cover 90% of what's going on. Without his explanation as there has been in previous interest, the story breeze much more through the contrast between the cat, the danger that surrounds it, and the people who are caught up in it all. If it feels just a little bit more intimate with the cat's perspective of everything, it turns out to be a nice diversion from the first four issues in the series.
Kubert keeps Inkblot the cat inexplicably cute with its big green eyes and its one-word vocabulary. The single "mow" cleverly stands-in for every possible reaction to the terrifying danger that surrounds it. The slight difficulty with this issue is that the center of the fantastic surrounding (likely meant to overwhelm the reader with sumptuous fantasy) feels a bit too cluttered. Kubert Has done a far better job in previous issues of contrasting a little cat against the immensity of the danger in the world around it.
It's nice to get in if you like this that's not quite as verbal as the other ones. I wanna be out in the workforce sell really benefits the series as a whole. Really interesting to see how things progress. Kubert and Gladd are doing an excellent job of modulating the energy of the series. More issues like this could help break up the exposition of the world-building that so often goes on in a series like this.
