Comics! Bedlam #5

Bedlam #5 

Story: Nick Spencer
Art: Riley Rossmo

Solicitation and Preview

Review
So I heard a rumor that Riley Rossmo will be leaving art duties for this book after issue 6. Saw the solicitation and the rumor got confirmed.

I cried for this book.

Rossmo on art has been a wonderful thing to see and look forward to each month. It will be really hard to imagine another artist's take on it, but the writing is strong enough that I will stick with it regardless.

So, that would make this issue Rossmo's penultimate issue. Let's see how things shape up for everyone.

And it is just another fantastic issue. We get the set up for how Fillmore got out of the really insane - insane asylum. The best thing about the setup is that I really believe that Fillmore is ready for the outside world. If anything, ask Mr. Wimble, the cat who has the same "x" mark on his forehead as all the other prisoners in the asylum.

I think one moment that really telegraphs where the next issue could go is the red coloring around Fillmore's last speech balloon, which was only around Red Mist's balloons in the book. It makes you wonder which what Fillmore will go; towards the past persona of Red Mist or towards the rehabbed version of himself.

We didn't get the reveal of Fillmore's face at the end of the issue that the comic built this tension for. I think that will play out as the last page or the first page of the next issue. But outside of that one prediction, I don't want to make any more. I have a feeling that this book will still pull out a surprise or two before the end of the next issue, and I must say that I an greatly looking forward to that reveal.

Grades
Words: 10/10
Pictures: 10/10
General Feeling After Reading: Anticipation.
Buy Next Issue: Definitely.