Sunday, February 13, 2022

Sunday Splash Page #205

 
"Night Hospital Madness," in Giant-Size Black Cat #1, by Jed MacKay (writer), C.F. Villa (artist), Brian Reber (color artist), Ferran Delgado (letterer)

reviewed this back in December, so there's not a lot else to say. It's the conclusion to Jed MacKay's two-and-a-half year stint writing solo star Felicia Hardy's adventures. Felicia gathers people with the power of the Infinity Stones in a desperate attempt to save her mother, while she's got Nick Fury and Squadron Supreme Nighthawk after her because they both want to control the Infinity Stones.

I mostly wanted to show this double-page splash because I mentioned it in that review, and that I wasn't really sure about how it's laid out. Black Cat and Star are both shown in different rooms, but with Felicia you can at least easily track her progress. Star's going right on the 4th floor, while also shown going left on the third floor. Where she's right next door to Nighthawk, who on the following pages, reaches Felicia before anyone else, and before Star catches up to him.

It's a nice idea for a splash in theory, but I'm not sure it really works in-story, except as a general representation of chaos.

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