Who’s Screwing Who?
Written By: Gilbert Hernandez
Art By: Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stewart
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: November 11, 2015
*Non-Spoilers and Score At The
Bottom*
We return
to the tiny Latin fishing village where mysterious glowing orbs appear and
disappear without warning, the children have been struck blind and only show
the whites of their eyes, and chain-smoking hussy Tito will probably sleep with
you if you lock eyes with her for twenty seconds. In this issue, we delve
deeper into the relationships between our main characters as well as learn of a
new phenomenon that seems linked to the glowing orbs…along with a new
white-haired village resident. Will all our questions be answered? Nope, but
it’s gonna look really good as the story unfolds. Read on for more gushing!
Explain
It!
Our tale
begins with a flashback to the previous life of town drunk Bundo, before he was
a drunk and lived in a shack on the beach and chased kids away from the bluffs.
He was a family man with a wife and two kids, and one day he was roused from a
nap by these same children and their claims of a man skulking about. After
exchanging some loving patter with his son, daughter and wife, he steps outside
to continue his siesta in a hammock, when one of the glowing white orbs rises
from the ground beneath him, leaves the ground fully, and vaporizes Bundo’s
family and home into nothing. Which, you can imagine, sort of bums him out.
Meanwhile
the scientist, named Professor, from what must be the Institute of Weird and
Spooky Stuff, is examining the children that were blinded after touching one of
the glowing spheres in the last issue. He finds that, despite their eyes going
all Little Orphan Annie and showing only whites, there has been no damage to
the optic nerve. This is of great consolation to Tito, who uses this
ice-breaker as an opportunity to flirt heavily with the Professor. He rebuffs
her because he’s only got eyes for the new girl in town, a white-haired beauty
named Ela, who showed up after the major storm that seemed to have been
triggered by the orb being touched (again, all last issue.) Tito’s lover Anton
and her husband Nikolas notice her interest in the scientist, and they don’t
like it one bit—though in Nikolas’ case it’s because he also has eyes for the
white-haired hottie Ela. So I think what we have here is a love trapezoid or
maybe a hexagon.
Weird
stuff keeps happening around town: Bundo steps in some footsteps left in the
sand by Ela, and he is blasted to nothingness by an energy burst that looks
similar to the one that destroyed his home and family. Ela hangs out on the
beach one night and three little orbs ring her head, while two men in
snorkeling gear and wetsuits make land nearby and disrobe to reveal gaudy
vacationer’s clothing. Eventually, the Professor follows Ela to the beach and
is zapped away by the same weird energy that claimed Bundo and his family, and
we actually see Bundo in this energy and he advises the scientist to return.
The scientist then appears astride a tree branch, naked a jaybird, to learn
that while he was gone the blinded children regained their sight but only
momentarily.
Bits and
Pieces:
The plot
deepens and so does the little fishing village’s amorous connections as a mysterious
new woman appears in the wake of the storm from the last issue. There’s lots of
intrigue and some punching in this issue, but really it’s just a pleasure to
look at, as Hernandez and Cooke’s story is so well-paced and draws you in
despite not having learned a lot about the suddenly-appearing glowing orbs. You
should check this comic book out if you like comics, and if you don’t like
comic books then this comic may change your mind.
9/10
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