A detective with no memory, no identity and no manners. A femme fatale seeking escape from a powerful crime lord. A voodoo queen with a penchant for mixtapes and hi-tops. A goat-eating TV… Welcome to Dedande City, where good people check under their beds at night and reality is never quite what it seems.

The first issue of Limbo was an interesting read. It felt, as was intended, like a story steeped in a video cassette feel mixed with a very pulp era detective story sensibility. There’s a simple vibrancy to the colouring of this issue that at times almost masks the details in the line work and at other exacerbates the panels with the simpler images. 

Limbo #1 has an almost ethereal quality to it because of Caspar Wikngaard‘s artwork that’s in great juxtaposition to the hard boiled noir stylings of Dan Watters‘ story. The protagonist, an amnesiac named Clay, is  an interesting character who feels like a small grain of sanity in the subtle shades of crazy throughout the comic.

As an opening to a new series, the first issue was …interesting. There’s just enough here to make me want to come back for the next issue, I’m not sure why but this comic just has something about it. There’s nothing about this comic that I loved, just as there’s nothing that I didn’t, but there is something lurking just beneath the surface that’s drawing me back, tickling my fancy as it were.

Limbo #1 has a great feel to it, and it’s that feel that struck a cord with me more than anything else. The more you immerse yourself into the pages, the more you’ll get out of it. This is a comic that has, for lack of better term, a soul to it. Limbo will be a series to keep an eye on.

Story: Dan Watters Art: Caspar Wijngaard
Story: 7 Art: 7.5 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Read

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