Eve #2

Eve #2

BOOM! Studios 2021

Written by Victor LaValle

Illustrated by Jo Mi-Gyeong

Coloured by Brittany Peer

Lettered by Andworld Design

* Will Eve escape the remnants of New York City in order to save her father and restore life to a dying planet?

* Accompanied by Wexler, Eve must stay one step ahead of the mutants stalking them who want to consume them.

* But when they are separated, she will discover that there are things even more terrifying in this new wasteland.

What a delightful book this is. The first issue saw Eve come out of her hibernation and learn that the world wasn’t quite what she was expecting it to be and her reality was now nothing like she could have ever imagined. This issue takes us to the next step and I’m for all how we see Victor continuing to tell this story. I have to say seeing the Earth from space to open up this issue was a pure stunner, it really shows us how much of the United States, Canada and South America are indeed under water. How the great lakes have formed a small ocean surrounded by some land is a brilliant idea and keep staring at this image looking for anything that I may not agree with but I simply cannot find any fault with the way this seen.

I am very much enjoying the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is impeccably rendered. The character development is phenomenal thanks to how we see the dialogue, the character interaction and how they act and react to the situations and circumstances that they encounter. I like that not everything we see and hear is quite human as well it makes for some interesting twists. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story the more interesting it gets.

How we see this being structured and with the layers within the story continuing to grow, evolve, strengthen and emerge is great to see. The side bits like seeing Eve’s father and then the space station and how she and Wexler leave for the first time all of these things work towards making the main arc stronger and more complex with added depth. How everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story forward is achieved extremely well.

The interiors here are beautifully rendered. The linework is fantastic and how we see the varying weights and techniques being utilised to create the detail work is extremely nice to see. The creativity and imagination is phenomenal and from the hexagonal structure to the mutant humans to the regular ones what we see is really well thought out and executed. I love how we see backgrounds being utilised throughout and how they work within the composition of the panels bringing us the depth perception, sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a masterful eye for storytelling. The colour work is spectacular as well. How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is rendered exceptionally well.

​

We’ve got pre-humanity collapse in the space station orbiting Earth, we’ve got mutants who look a lot like zombies roaming around looking for their next meal and then there’s the human population that is working on an old world scale, see hand made weapons, who didn’t mutate. It’s a lot of information to take in but it’s done in such a smart way and how it manages to make the flow of the book seem logical is magnificent to see. This is an extremely well crafted book from top to bottom.