The reader becomes so used to the grayscale used in Black Magick that it becomes the expected palette of the world, until fiery color explodes back onto the scene at the end of the first issue. The book follows detective and witch Rowan Black, who works very hard to separate those two sides of her life until one case sends them spiraling into each other.
The darkness within Black Magick is the kind of late-night blackout that fuels imaginations to conjure all things that go bump in the night. Like an old noir mystery, the extensive gray cements the horror on someone’s face as they find a body or the drab reality of the docks as another corpse is fished out of the river. Artist Nicola Scott and color assistant Chiara Arena work in shades of gray, punctuated with story-relevant splashes of color. Like the characters in the world it depicts, Black Magick isn’t a book of stark black and white. Black Magick, by Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott, and Chiara Arena Before we all take off on vacations to beaches and bask in the warmth of the solar star, check out these insidiously dark comics best read after sundown.
Conversely, most of the United States woke up in darkness, a situation that will continue until the sun slowly expands its range both in the morning and evening.īut as the world grows brighter and greener, we're taking a moment to shine a blacklight on the titles that are unafraid to dive into the inky darkness of both the color palette and the horror at the heart of the human soul. Yesterday marked the advent of daylight saving time, skipping an hour so that the sun lingers slightly longer.
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