Betrayal! Despite a heroic sacrifice intended to buy her freedom from V.E.I.L., Annalise has become a prisoner in Chuma Castle. Now she must face her greatest challenge yet—Etiquette Classes! We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 gives us a better idea of the secret about Annalise that’s been teased as she gets to know her mother.
Written by Matthew Rosenberg, We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us has been a rocket launched series that both loves and skewers the spy/action genre. It’s full of brilliant, crazy characters, all of which we want to find out more about. At the center of it all is Annalise, whose father was killed by a superspy and whose father transferred his consciousness into a robot body. Now, she’s been delivered to her mother which she hasn’t seen since she was a baby and to say there’s family dysfunction is an understatement.
We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 is another brilliant and fun issue in a series that has delivered that with every issue. The writing is hilarious. It’s packed with visual gags. There’s more than one wtf moment. It’s an issue that’s just hit after hit as it goes through bouncing around its chaotic cast.
And through all of that insanity, Rosenberg delivers teases and hints about Annalise. The series has danced around the reveal for some time, but it’s this issue where we get a better idea as to what’s going on. Add in a dive into the relationship between her parents, and her father and her mother’s assistant, and you get an issue that’s full of moments that stand out.
The art by Stefano Landini is great. With color by Jason Wordie and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, the comic relies on visual site gags as much as anything else. A character is revealed to be wearing less than an ideal amount of clothes at odd times, the looks they give each other while on a video chat, there’s so much in the art that builds off of and enhances Rosenberg’s script. It’s visuals feel like they come from the world of Zucker movies like Airplane and The Naked Gun as much as they do James Bond films.
We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 is another great issue in a series that has delivered with every one. It’s a comic that is exciting to read as you never know what’s going on next, what will be revealed, and what site gags await. It’s fun in every way and hopefully fun we’ll be seeing more of in the future.
Story: Matthew Rosenberg Art: Stefano Landini
Color: Jason Wordie Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy
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