But while the series tells a disjointed story through an army of characters, there seems to be a definitive lack of meaning to be found in this byzantine catalog of vice. Colorful characters arise out of the chaotic viper’s nest of tales, including the femme fatale Megan Dietrich, the young head of one of the Trust’s families, and Lono, a bestial, gruesome monster of an ex-Minuteman.
Related: Humanoid's First Degree: A Crime Anthology PreviewĪs the series winds on, and the bodies pile up, a larger narrative begins to form: one which involves a cabal of 13 families known as “The Trust,” a secret group of power-mongers who possess absolute control over the United States, and “The Minutemen,” a shadowy band of elite killers who, once employed by the families, now find themselves on the run after a deal gone bad. From the outset, Graves' mysterious and lethal “gifts” are set as a central moral quandary throughout the sometimes interconnected tales of crime which make up the series: who is this man, and why does he give ordinary people the ability to claim violent retribution free of consequence? If this collection of increasingly tragic vignettes has a central figure, it is sinister “Agent” Philip Graves, dispenser of supposed justice through his seemingly magic, federally-sanctioned firearms.
0 kommentar(er)
