You Promised Me Darkness #03

You Promised Me Darkness #03

Behemoth Entertainment 2021

By Damian Connelly

Lettered by Anabella Mazzaferri

In this issue we’ll learn the story of how the Anti-Everything eliminated the Weird8, the heroes of Kolosimo, while Yuko tells of her first encounter with the Anti-Everything and his henchmen. But while Sage teaches them how to handle their powers, The Anti-Everything enacts his plan to collect all the energy he can to face Yuko and Sebastian.

The more that I read this the more lost that I get and the more lost that I get the more I reread this. It is a vicious cycle but you can’t help it because while the story jumps around through time and encounters me as the reader cannot get enough of what I am seeing. I so desperately want to comprehend what this is, and yes some part of me understands perfectly what is going on its the other part of me that wonders. What it wonders well that’s not important because it’s all about what the individual reader wonders and I doubt any two of us will get the exact same or similar feelings from what we read. This is as close to an individually crafted story without it being personally written solely for you.

I absolutely love 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 presented extremely well. The character development that we see through the narration, the dialogue, the character interaction and how they act and react to the situations and circumstances they encounter blows my mind. The pacing here is interesting and even though it’s got more than its fair share of then and now moments we’re captivated by what is happening and seeing how certain events shape how they see the world around them.

How we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to grow, evolve and strengthen or even star anew all depends on the avenues within the story being explored or new ones making themselves known. The depth and complexity to the story that these layers with their intense characterisation and sensational moments that defy logic bring to the book are immeasurable. It doesn’t matter if they work with the main arc or simply swirl around it everything we see happening has its purpose and significance to the story.

The interiors here are absolutely stunning and a complete study in black & white. It feels like everything starts off with black and it’s the white that is added to create the depth and dimension to the visuals and not in a negative kind of way but just working backwards as it were. I love that nudity isn’t an issue and I don’t who he paid to get between his legs but I humbly volunteer my own services in that department, I mean damn. There is this inescapable quality to the work and the detail within it that we see which is mindbogglingly brilliant to say the least. The attention to detail is phenomenal and somehow when backgrounds are incorporated into this and within the composition of the panels bringing us depth perception, a sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the book becomes that much more focused. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a brilliant eye for storytelling.

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This whole story is one mind trip after another and it’s like I’m having some kind of giant acid flashback. Yet we know the world is supposed to end, we know the comet gave folks powers, we know that Sebastian’s father thinks he’s the Antichrist, who happens to be chased by the anti-everything. These factors and more are what make this so damn interesting, complicated and dangerous for everyone involved. The writing and character are spectacular and the interiors are utterly brilliant and that nothing conforms to what would be considered close to normal just keeps the appeal that much stronger. I’m obsessed with this book and the more I see the more I want to see, I can’t stay on the morphine cause it’s making me itch and it’s an itch that’s impossible to scratch, not that I really want to scratch it anyway cause I’m afraid it’ll go away.