Back in 2021, Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign for his or her tokusatsu-inspired graphic novel Inferno Girl Red. I backed it so shortly and pledged sufficient to get the great hardcover copy of the e-book. Then, earlier this yr, they had been in a position to fulfill the backer orders and I obtained my copy and it was beautiful. Sadly, I used to be solely not too long ago in a position to learn the graphic novel and it’s unbelievable. If you missed out on the Kickstarter, don’t fear. Inferno Girl Red is being launched in three components with #1 already out and accessible at your native comedian retailers with all three being collected in paperback this July.
I backed Inferno Girl Red for a few causes. First, I like the character design and artwork normally for the comedian. D’Urso did an unbelievable job in each these departments and Igor Monti killed it with the colours. Second, it was a part of the Massive-Verse which is a comedian e-book universe I’ve come to like. It all began with Radiant Black from Kyle Higgins, but it surely has grown into a lot extra and Inferno Girl Red is a incredible addition. Third, I’m a sucker for just about something impressed by tokusatsu.
Inferno Girl Red tells a actually incredible story about a woman named Cássia and her mother shifting again to the large metropolis to go to high school after the identical metropolis mainly chased her mother out of city. The motive? Her mother would report on the hero Inferno Girl Red, however nobody believed that Inferno Girl Red was actual. Well, after some loopy occasions, all the metropolis will get lifted off the bottom and one factor results in one other with Cássia turning into the brand new Inferno Girl Red and having to cease the unhealthy guys. I’m doing my greatest to not spoil something, I promise.
The means this story is instructed is a lot enjoyable. We have real character moments all through. We meet nice characters that really feel like they’d exist on this world. It’s a brisk tempo which retains you engaged longer and is divided into three components that I may see simply being tailored into a 3-part animated miniseries. It seems like you might be studying a tv present and I adore it. I’ll admit that there’s not a lot thriller within the story. The little mysteries they set up just like the id of the unhealthy man are fairly apparent. However, I don’t hate it. In reality, I don’t thoughts it in any respect. It doesn’t have to attempt to have some loopy twist to be good.
At the top of the day, Inferno Girl Red is a story about perception and believing in a single’s self and it’s so nicely performed. Maybe it’s simply the place I’m proper now, but it surely’s so essential proper now to listen to this message and see such fantastic individuals supporting their associates.
Whether it’s the artwork or the writing or the character design, I can’t discover any fault with Inferno Girl Red besides one. There is no extra of the story introduced in the mean time. The e-book ends on a fairly large notice that clearly exhibits what the subsequent couple of arcs will most likely be, however there have been no bulletins concerning a Book Two. In reality, on Twitter, Groom responded to my cries for a Book Two with this:
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