Review: ‘The Tin Can Society’ #5 Avoids Fridges; Ramps Up The Pace
by Benjamin Hall
Summary
Johnny Moore’s friends in The Tin Can Society continue their search for his killer. Yet, it may not be as easy to solve this mystery as they think. Is the culprit the one with the Caliburn suit? Also what other mysteries has Johnny left for his friends?
Overall
8/10Writer/co-plotter Peter Warren and co-plotter Rick Remender are doing a fine job with keeping up the mystery to the initial murder in The Tin Can Society #5. Yet, they seem with this issue to be doing some women in refrigerators type storytelling. Luckily, there are no actual fridges seeing use in this tale. On the plus side, this issue seems to be ramping up the plot’s pacing. Though where the tale is going is any reader’s guess at this moment. Nevertheless, the main characters act with logic, and in relatable ways. Their dialogue is also believable when it comes to the technobabble.
Artist Francesco Mobili and colorist Chris Chuckry are continuing to be excellent when creating the main covers and the interior pages. Cover A suggests so many possibilities for the reader to think about regarding the plotting in this issue. Not to mention the shading and color compositions enhance the depth while helping evoke a fantastical realism in the design. Unfortunately, certain bits of minimalism, such as feet, on the cover are of a lesser quality than the larger elements. As for the interiors there is not much difference in quality for this issue than in past issues. Nevertheless, if one looks closely one can see a lot more subtle details than in some parts of past issues.
Letterer Jackie Marzan is still doing fine on helping with the illusion of time passing via the placement of the text. However, some of the word balloons and their anchors could have better positions when it comes to how close they are to characters.
Cover B is by artist Matteo Scalera and Chuckry. While the design is not as fantastical as Cover A it does have similar grandness to it. Scalera creates this grandness mostly by having the background elements be a focus to contrast with the foreground characters. When it comes to the hues Chuckry goes more narrow on the color palette on this cover. Whether the ranges of hues is too dark is up for debate.
The Tin Can Society #5 is due out today from Image Comics and Giant Generator.
