For those unaware, authors get complimentary copies (known as comps) of the books they make sent by the publisher. This is a very different book for Remender and the art from André Lima Araújo gave this book a really grounded, yet uncomfortable feel. In the first issue, we, the reader, follow Sonny from his Chinatown apartment to various places across the city where he engages in some damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t encounters with strangers. I’m really enjoying how this book is set out with the multiple panels and the reserved use of dialogue for the protagonist, Sonny.

He heads out to an home in an isolated area only to find the owners brutally tortured, then murdered.

The ending was unsettling out of context, and will probably be unsettling in context as well, but that context is going to be necessary to determine whether or not the series ends up in my pull.

Sonny is a character that I hope we learn more about in the coming issues so that we can understand his motivation for what he is currently undertaking. Ultimately, Give it a Chance is the right rating to give at this stage but I am hoping to give a Highly Recommended come the trade review. We don’t get many narrative footholds, only oddly placed details and tidbits of information, and most of our knowledge of the protagonist comes from inferring things from his action. No spoilers here, if you like a simple tale of revenge, with some thriller-y elements, this is for you. Given that there is very little dialogue, it is down to Araujo’s fantastic artwork to emphasise Remender’s story.

The last two Remender stories I covered were Lowand Death or Glory, two very different stories that you couldn’t easily compare and contrast, but ultimately both were optimistic in a sense.