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REVIEW: Bettie Page Unbound #8 "Avallone's Script Never Let The Pacing Sag"

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:30:17 -0600

(Dynamite Entertainment, creative team: David Avallone, Matt Gaudio, Julius Ohta, Pasquale Qualano, Ellie Wright, Sheelagh D, Taylor Esposito)

The titular pin up girl is stuck on a train with an identical doppelganger and the beginnings of uncovering a conspiracy. This issue swings hard with 1950s styled science fiction ideas and using the narrative device of a train as a mechanism for increasing tension was a solid craft choice. The action scenes from Gaudio, Ohta, Qualano, Wright and Esposito did a great job at conveying the urgency and immediacy of what was happening, and Avallone's script never let the pacing sag.

The only problems were connecting with the characters: Page herself is a cipher, despite some details about her history coming out (she was born in Nashville) and her hive mind antagonists didn't have any new ideas behind them. This is a book with a high degree of craft and a medium degree of innovation that will be seen as genius by fans of the property and solid for any other readers. RATING: HONORABLE MENTION.

Writer: David Avallone
Art: Julius Ohta
The ultimate conspiracy against America has gone deeper than anyone could have possible imagined. Is there anyone who can uncover the truth in time? Is the end in sight? Is there anyone that can save us? Model Agent Bettie Page is reporting for duty!

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