Se7en: Lust, Pride and Envy
It’s been a while since I wrote about the first three issues of this comic series. I was so disappointed at issue #3 (Sloth) that it took many trips to the comic shop to get the next three issues: Lust, Pride and Envy. Issue seven is still in the making.
As with the rest of the series, issues 4 through 6, are a roller coaster. Being Lust the best story telling and Envy the best art and character development I’ve seen this far. Pride is a bit boring, but not as bad, nothing could, as the story telling of Sloth.
In Lust, they give us a bit of the background on the religious upbringing that is quite consistent with the character we know. The art is good, but the story telling is what shines. We know of his mother and her relationship to his uncle, how the mother pushes him into a world of guiltiness (is that a word?), and how his teenager hormones had something to say about it. But not quite enough, so it all start making sense.
Pride is quite uneventful, a bit of cheese here and there, very cliche, nothing much to say… the art cover, as usual, is great.
Envy is perhaps the best issue thus far. It is actually what prompted me to write about the series again. It is what I’ve hoped the whole series would have been. It goes deep, it shows how John Doe cracks and we understand how he becomes vulnerable to the sin he is guilty of at the end of the movie. The writer, David Mack, found a story that makes sense. The art is very good and compelling. If you are not interested in the rest of the series, at least try this one.
It is said that by the end of the year they are going to put out the whole series in a graphic novel, so if you are reading this and you are tempted to get it, then just wait until the graphic novel hits the stand.
