In Vault’s “Heart Eyes” #1, the monsters are invading the city! In fact, they eat your sanity! Crazy, eh?
Yeah, Dennis Hopeless writes the tale of the young woman who appears from nowhere, in a tremendously dangerous zone of ground: the inner city of San Antonio, where monsters have laid all to waste. People are hiding deep underground. And yet here appears Lupe, wandering around in a sleeveless top and jeans. She’s a happy-go-lucky sort of girl, which astonishes the local survivors. What’s up with the smiling Lupe?
Artist Victor Ibanez works wonders with the human-versus-monsters war. The people are solidly rendered, and the monsters, well, they look awesome even when ‘rendering’ the humans! The environments are convincing, the poses and expressions are extremely well-planned. The panel layouts move the story along, guiding us into the depths of human suffering, the underground back stories, the haunting echoes of who they used to be, dammit.
Addison Duke colours the environments, the emotions, the action. It’s moody, claustrophobic, experimental. Simon Bowland manages to map the dialogue lettering in such a way that it flows in and around the characters, seamlessly, like a tentacle.
Vault Comics, Heart Eyes #1, $4.99 for 23 pages of content
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