Review: Dia De Los Muertos #1
Posted By Leo Johnson on February 6, 2013
Riley Rossmo is the artist behind multiple hit comics over at Image Comics. He’s drawn Debris, Green Wake, Bedlam, Cowboy Ninja Viking, and more. Now, Rossmo, along with a nine different writers are taking on Dia De Los Muertos, the Mexican “Day of the Dead”. Over the course of three issues, each featuring three different stories, this miniseries will explore people and events all surrounding Dia De Los Muertos.
Dia De Los Muertos
In the first story, “Dead But Dreaming”, Alex Link and Riley Rossmo tell the story of a girl born on Halloween, with her mother dying in the process. In recent years she’s begun to visit the Deadlands in her dreams to visit her mother once again. In “Reflections”, Christopher Long and Jean-Paul Csuka tell of ancestral protection and ghostly retribution, with Rossmo providing colors for the story. In “Te Vas Angel Mio”, Dirk Manning and Rossmo tell us the tale of a mariachi singer who sees a girl who just may be his dead love.
With any book featuring multiple writers it’s often difficult to establish a consistent tone, but Dia De Los Muertos was successful in this issue. Link, Manning, and Long all kept a certain tone with their respective stories, each keeping a certain sense of suspense and emotion in the story. The editor surely helped keep things consistent, but each writer deserves praise. This issue, the first of three, sets a strong precedent for what following issues will be and the quality of the overall miniseries.
Dia De Los Muertos
Rossmo only did art on two stories, “Dead But Dreaming” and “Te Vas Angel Mio”, with Jean-Paul Csuka pulling art duties on “Reflections”. Even so, the art was extremely consistent, with Csuka’s art looking more Rossmo-esque than even some of Rossmo’s past work while still showing enough diversity to make the difference in artists apparent. The coloring on each story also makes the art pop. Rossmo colors “Reflections”, with Nick Johnson and Megan Wilson coloring “Dead But Dreaming” and “Te Vas Angel Mio”, respectively. The colors set the tone for the stories, with each looking as if it had a specific color scheme, with two or three colors making up most of the art.
Dia De Los Muertos
Dia De Los Muertos is well worth the read. It’s another Riley Rossmo book, but it also features stories from a nice mix of writers. It’s a nice new comic and is sure to sell like crazy.
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