Have you been exposed to w0rldtr33?? You might recall that in the future, the Undernet is a secret architecture to the Internet. Picture the Dark Web, but ohhh, darker, and scarier, and relentless. Ariel and his friends broke into the Undernet, then sealed up the break-in. But now the break has reopened, unleashing a horrific force.
The second issue of w0rldtr33 allows writer James Tynion IV to pull together more seamy scenes of nudity and adult situations, to pull the insulation off the bare copper wires and allow the electric eels of horror to emerge. It’s a stunning read, quite frankly, with loads of moments that make us hold our breath.
Fernando Blanco pulls us in tight, with tightly rendered figures in danger, small claustrophobic panels all crammed on the page, thickly rendered rules, and straight lines contrasting with the twisted behaviours. Jordie Bellaire conducts a master class on colouring, taking dark orange and pacing it against dark green, the jungle colours deeply subdued and making it murky.
It’s urban horror, the banality of the flourescent flickering ebbs of truth and lies, who is altogether covering up, who is nude yet not exposed. It’s riddled and cryptic, it’s addictive and you should just taste one issue, just this one, just this once!
Image Comics, w0rldtr33 #2, $3.99 for 27 pages of content. Mature
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