He grew a big beard, as you just noted. That's what happened to his face. Good thing she's not a detective.
Live Die Reload is about an angry cop killing the guy who's putting it to his ex-wife. OK, so the guy is also the mayor. And the mayor is also nearly finished killing 100 people to undo a curse placed upon a katana wielded by Hideyoshi Tokugawa. And once the curse is undone, the Mayor will be immortal and possibly command an army of the dead. I was less clear on whether that was literal or figurative.
The annoying thing is the story has to lampshade how stupid the Mayor is to send people to kill Detective Cronenberg before the ritual is complete, because it is really fucking stupid. Even stupider, Cronenberg's Captain, in an attempt to keep the detective occupied, puts him in charge of investigating the heist of the katana from the museum it was in. Cronenberg straight up tells them that if they'd just left him alone, it would have taken him months to piece anything together. But the Mayor just couldn't wait to see if his honey could get Cronenberg to sign the stupid divorce papers this time.
Stefano Cardoselli's art is all white space and thick black ink. Going for a noir vibe, but a lot more graphic violence in this, not much subtlety. Like a more recent era Frank Miller comic, or if '80s Stallone tried to do a noir movie. Now part of me wants to see that movie, just for the absolute train wreck it would be.
Everybody either has intense (verging on crazed) eyes, or their eyes are hidden in deep shadows. There's a lot of killing in this book, and the dark blood flies everywhere, minus the occasional scenes where two people stop to talk for a few seconds. The ex-wife only appears in person once, and there's never any sense of what she thinks about all this, or if she's even aware of it. It's two idiots murdering dozens of people over her, or more accurately, just venting their rage at the steady decline they think their city is in on each other and everyone around them.
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