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author Ram V and Dan Watters ' modish collaboration – the interlace miniseriesThe One HandandThe Six Fingers , fromImage funnies – may prove to be one of the stand - out comic book stories of the year , as the pair seek to deliver an ambitious mix of thriller natural action and intellectual provocation .
The One Hand#1 andThe Six Fingers#1 establish the groundwork for the slaying mystery at the heart of the interconnected series , as an one-time killer yield to endanger the 29th - one C urban center of Neo Novena .
Each series tells the story from a dissimilar perspectives , with the precise nature of the accuracy falling somewhere in between the two . From the opening move yield , it appearsthe core questions of " how " , " when " , " where " , and " why , " the two perspective will convergewill be as fundamental to the narrative propulsion of the books as the classic doubt of " whodunnit . "
In the succeeding city of Neo Novena , detective Ari Nassar confront off with the One Hand Killer - a murderer he believed he caught to begin with in his vocation .
The first issue of the miniseries patiently acclimates readers to the world ofThe One Hand , including the far - flung , yet familiar , future urban center of Neo Novena . Much like Ram V ’s use of detective story figure of speech , and constabulary procedural beats to ground the history , the city of Neo Novena draws inspiration from similar stories .
Ram V’s Futuristic Police Procedural Uses Familiar Forms To Achieve Something Novel
The One Hand #1 – Written By Ram V, Art By Laurence Campbell, Color By Lee Loughridge, & Lettering By Aditya Bidikar
ThoughThe One Hand#1 was free first , it can be register interchangeably withThe Six Fingers#1 as an entry point into the serial . It remains to be set whether this will stay the type throughout the residue of the series , or whether a definite recitation order will become plain .
The One Hand#1 introduces Neo Novena homicide detective Ari Nassar via a classic storytelling chemical mechanism : it is his last Clarence Day before retirement , when he ’s pull in back into an old subject . There has been a new violent death by serial killer known as the One Hand , dubbed for the bally hand print left at every offence scene , alongside a orphic cipher . Writer Ram V delightfully skew the familiar by lend a specially interesting worldbuilding element ; Nassar has antecedently hitch not just one , but two world for the previous murder , helping to ramp up cases against both that sent them to prison house .
The first issue of the miniseries patiently acclimatize readers to the world ofThe One Hand , including the far - flung , yet familiar , future metropolis of Neo Novena . Much like Ram V ’s use of detective story figure of speech , and police procedural beats to grind the story , the city of Neo Novena draw inspiration from similar story , including films likeSe7enandBlade Runner , both of whichOne HandandSix Fingersvisually , stylistically , or thematically duplicate in some way or another . This use of the familiar is particularly exciting , sacrifice it is deliberately design to only be one part of a greater picture .
A Serial Killer Origin Story Balances Out The Veteran Investigator’s Perspective
The Six Fingers #1 – Written By Dan Watters, With Art By Sumit Kumar, Color By Lee Loughridge, And Lettering By Aditya Bidikar
The Six Fingers#1 provide the answer to the central question ofThe One Hand#1 : who committed the latest " One Hand " murder . The culprit is Johannes Vale , a alumna student in archeology who – over the course of the issue – hail to realize that he melanize out the Nox before and institutionalize a brutal murder , and sets out to infer why . InOne Hand#1 , detective Ari Nassar asserts that the violent death is emphatically the work of the original Orcinus orca , because the cipher on the wall at the crime scene was never released to the public . The question then becomes how Vale recreated it .
Dan Watters and Ram V ’s interweaving story , in addition to furnish a exhilarating , exciting plot of land , is also visually stellar . Artists Laurence Campell and Sumit Kumar – along with colorist Lee Loughridge and letterer Aditya Bidikar , who work on both statute title – have acutely realized their writers ' imaginativeness for the world of Neo Novena . Just as the narration draws on a variety of style and influence , the art does the same , give the visuals a logical dynamism , in overhaul of the floor ’s multilayered interrogation of truth and the human capacity to understand it .
The first issue ofOne HandandSix Fingersfeature several artistic reference to one another , and as their tale continue to mutually unravel , readers can expect more optic crossing over as well .
“One Hand” & “Six Fingers” Collude To Deliver A Sprawling Narrative – In Multiple Ways
One Story, Two Miniseries, Multiple Truths
The first issues ofOne HandandSix Fingersfeature several aesthetic references to one another , and as their stories continue to mutually unravel , readers can expect more optic crossovers as well . The close ofOne Hand#1 puts Detective Nassar and the NNPD on the track of a six - fingered culprit , thanks to an superfluous smudge next to the hand print at the crime scene . Johannes Vale is revealed inSix Fingers#1 to have the eponymic extra digit , a mutation lead from vulnerability to chemicals at his job . This sets up a Graeco-Roman computed tomography - and - mouse biz that may very well produce a radically unexpected termination .
The question stay whether either , or both , of the man convicted in the first place for the " One Hand " murders will factor into the tarradiddle ; in a taradiddle preoccupied with " the gaps in our knowledge , " there is no guarantee every one of the miniseries ' inquiry will be full answer , or that the answers provided will be sizable , concrete fact . In fact , it seems most probable that the eventual outcome of the series will be a premix of fulfil pay - off and intentionally keep up ambiguity . Or , perhaps the aloof future mise en scene will finally prove to be less tethered to modern-day society ’s creation of truth and Justice Department than so far indicated .
The One HandandThe Six Fingerswill run for five matter each , bringing the total story to ten . With each installment , readers can expect to deign further down a rabbit cakehole , as Johannes Vale struggles with the dark take him , and Detective Ari Nassar fights to preserve the unity of his legacy , which the late murder casts doubt on . Whatever materialise in the end , Ram V and Dan Watters’interlocking miniseries have already proven that , together , they are among the most excitingstories coming fromImage Comicsright now .
The One Hand#1andThe Six Fingers#1are usable now from Image Comics .
