From Image, it’s sapphic magic, love and shadows, and many dimensions. It’s Bolero #1.
Writer Wyatt Kennedy plunges us into the comings and comings-of-age of two young women. Their closeness is the stuff of legend, but that’s not all that’s on display. There is a parallel universe to be had if you are brave enough to leave your own day-to-day life behind. But like love, to enter in requires a display of bravery: to jump or not?
The structure of the first issue brings us heavily into the worlds of Natasha and Devyn. And so we are, for almost three-quarters of this 46-page story. The love, the sharing, the happy couple. Then, things change, big time. And while that’s fine, I find myself wondering about our emotional investment in the two main characters. Should the book have been more tightly constructed, more closely edited? Like in any relationship, we might ask: “Where you see this going? Where will we be five issues from now?”
Visually, the going is really good. We’re in safe hands with illustrator Luana Vecchio (letters by Brandon Graham). The limited colour palette, the interesting drawing angles, the expressions of mutual love, the lust-filled pulses of passion.
Bonus pages in this inaugural issue include variant covers, character designs, page roughs, and a short strip about a cat (?) chatting with Phil Lord.
Image, Bolero #1, $5.99 for 60 pages of content. Mature for sexual content.
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