Review: String Vol. 1
From Mad Cave Studios
Diving into this first volume of String, with mystical and police elements from Mad Cave Studios.
Yoon-Sook Namgung is a 25-year-old Korean-American woman with the remarkable ability to see two types of “strings” connecting various people. The first is blue and stretches between sexual partners. The second—dark black—connects murderers and their victims. If you have a murder that needs solving, Yoon can help. Worried your partner is cheating on you? Yoon can literally SEE the connections. Yoon’s life—for all the drama and constant TMI—is good, at least until the day she notices a string, a BLACK string, connected to… herself! This means she’ll either soon murder someone, or be murdered herself! So…dang. Which one?
(W) Paul Tobin (A) Carlos Javier Olivares (C) Sara Colella (L) Taylor Esposito
After reading this first volume I realised that I am a bit of a sucker for police shows with an unorthodox consultant. The Mentalist, Blue Collar and High Potential have all been on my list. And that brought me very nicely to String.
A consultant who works with the police (and occasionally others) who sees strings of two types stretching from different people. Those in some sexual relationship, and the link between the killer and the victim. Quite a contrast, I think.
This makes being in the same room as Yoon a little tricky, as she sees what you have been up to - romantic or illegal. The police in the precinct may have a lot to hide. What makes reading this even more entertaining is that Yoon is likeable.
She’s a little impulsive and sometimes says too much, but you get a feel for her as she meets her new police partner, and it acts as a good introduction between us as the reader and the limits and skills of Yoon.
As the story progresses, Yoon discovers her black string - but does that mean she will be killed, or be the killer? Neither of these is very appealing, but she wants to find out.
The story is cleverly intertwined throughout the volume, and there are clever links that will have you flicking back through the pages.
One thing that adds to the story here is the artwork. Bright and vibrant around Yoon, mainly, but on top of that, you get the various strings, and it can be fun chasing and tracing them around the pages. The story’s darker aspects are still well shown, such as death, gangsters, and more of the city’s underbelly!
I hope we get to see more of this series!
Get it at Forbidden Planet:
