In Kabul, Afghanistan, the Indigo Children search for Ahmed. These are the strangely gifted children, with little memory of their powers. And the searchers are being hunted!
Chapter four, as it is written by Curt Pires and Rockwell White, tosses us into unfamiliar and disorienting situations alongside our Indigo Children. Under a table, in a reception hall. Running for our lives through the rubble-filled streets, covered in stress and anxiety.
Artist Alex Diotto, with Dee Cunniffe providing in this case, a beautifully realized desert colour range, storyboards the panels for maximum ease of navigation, and loads of eye-catching drama. The result is a really strong and strange story, with its overall flavour of sci-fi, coupled with speculative fiction, its exotic travel mixed with in-depth human introspection.
I really enjoy this series, the way it weaves the present with the past, the bright and shiny with the dark and cloudy motives, the mauve moments of reflection, the poetic other side of reality butting heads with military intervention. It´s inventive, it’s a breath of fresh Kabul air, it’s weighty in its depth and breadth.
Better and better each time around, honestly.
Image Comics, Indigo Children #4, $3.99 for 29 pages of story.
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