“Revival” #21 keeps the suspense building as the story steers into a different setting. The whodunit mystery continues to unravel with a new suspect and another suspicious threat. The plot twists keep piling up, making for another exciting “Revival” installment.
WRITTEN BY: Tim Seeley
ART BY: Mike Norton
PUBLISHER: Image Comics
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: June 25, 2013
Review By: Jorge Solis
For exactly one day, the dead of rural Wisconsin suddenly came back to life. An endless parade of government agents, reporters, and scientists hound the “Revivers,” asking them why they have returned. While Sheriff Dana Cypress attempts to control the zombie crisis, she is also investigating the unsolved murder of her sister, Em. Her investigation has led to a masked murderer who may have been resurrected, while he was being cremated.The revivers have slowly spread beyond the point of origin in Wisconsin and into New York.
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Writer Tim Seeley adds a lot of freshness and drama now that the setting has moved to New York. There is still turmoil going on in Wisconsin, but the main plot has taken readers to the Big Apple. I really like that Dana is not a “fish out of water” in the big city. If she was, Dana wouldn’t be a very good cop to be begin with. Seeley is right at home when his writing delivers the cop banter as Dana meets her new partner, agent Enrique Puig.
Seeley then sneaks in a twisted teen romance with Dana’s younger sister, Em. Interestingly, the guy she’s flirting with is a suicidal Reviver. Rhodey “Road Rash” Rasch is enjoying the pain as an internet daredevil. Rhodey isn’t not afraid of dying again, even though Em clearly is. If Death is coming back for her, she should enjoy whatever time she has left.
Artist Mike Norton delivers the most shocking crime scene in this issue. Dana and her partner arrive at a meat factory to investigate their dead body. In graphic detail, we see the stomach cut open and his intestines spilling out. The legs are bent and the feet are crooked, to represent how horrible their murder was.
The eerier suspense takes a surrealistic turn when Em has a beautiful nightmare. Norton visually adds to the themes of death and resurrection when Em stares at her reflection in the pond. Em notices a dead deer, with one eye, standing right behind her. The white roses on its antlers suddenly turn red, to foreshadow blood will be split.
“Revival” #21 keeps readers guessing as the whodunit mystery takes on the Big Apple. I can’t wait to see how the story develops in its new setting.