Laura Kinney: Wolverine #2 // Review
Laura is entering Hell’s Kirchen. It’s a pretty big place, but not necessarily so big that two opposing people might run into each other. Laura just happen to run into Electra—the Daredevil. There’s an arms shipment that she has some knowledge about. Do you like to draw doesn’t think she needs any help. She’s going to find out how her and she is in. Laura Kinney: Wolverine #2. Writer Erica Schultz carefully constructs a fun, little crossover between two heroes in her corner of the Marvel Universe. The action is brought to the page by artist Guadalupe Belviso and colorist Rachelle Rosenberg.
It’s just an arms deal. Contraband. That sort of thing, how difficult could that be for a trained assassin? Especially given the fact that she’s a trained assassin who is seen some really nasty stuff that’s been on every side of the marvel universe? It turns out the arm still involves a collar to mute. Someone who doesn’t have any ability to use their own powers. Someone who has the ability to make things explode. Naturally, things are going to be a little bit more complicated than Electra could deal with it on her own. naturally it’s going to be more than a bit stressful for everyone involved.
Schultz is juggling just a few different elements on the page. The animosity between the two heroes. The peril that the enslaved mutants find himself in. And the overall danger of the elements that are bringing about the encounter to begin with. Schultz has a very firm grasp of everything that needs to hit the page and just the right order that it needs to hit the page in order to make for a very compelling story that keeps the pages turning. The distinct personalities, and a distinct contrast between the two heroes makes for a truly enjoyable entry into a very young series.
Belviso slams, slices and shoots the action across the page with some very heavy shadow. There’s a lot going on in and around the edges of everything that feels suitably moody, at least partially thanks to some very sharp work by Rosenberg and her deft coloring. Reaction layouts do much to catapult everything across the page. But there’s also quite a bit of skulking around and shadows in that sort of thing. The heavy inking allows for only a little bit of room on the part of the colorist for many, many pages. Thankfully, Rosenberg is really good at doing what she’s doing it and is capable of using the limited space available to really hammer home a full and complicated and intricate sort of atmosphere.
Schultz is doing a really good job of rendering her own little corner of everything. And it’s very cool seeing it put together. With any luck, both of her surgeries will continue for quite some time, and she will be able to continue to carve out her own area. It really seems like she’s got some serious momentum going in her own areas with two very distinctly interesting characters that come together quite well on the page for this particular issue.
