Sleepless #6 Review

Writer: Sarah Vaughn / Artists: Leila Del Duca, Alissa Sallah/ Image Comics I’ve enjoyed the first few issues of Sleepless as it has been building up as this brilliant drama of folks dancing around in court attempting to say all the right words and all the dastardly actions that take place outside of it: attempted assassinations and the like. We find ourselves on the trail of just who wants our Lady Poppy dead and gone; it gets hot and cold, and it has been a thrilling ride. Last issue, we get a name of a suspect who just may be one of the persons behind this madness. But in true Game of Thrones fashion, a girl needs a name, and it may not go over well when presented to the King who demands proof. Drama Bomb Seeing Cyrenic nearly unhinged is a startling sight especially when we know from previous issues he’s processing the enteral sleep of his mentor Sir Gert, one of the oldest in the Sleepless Order. It doesn’t smooth things over since the King made a scene about it, and Cy is starting to fall victim to the effects of the symptoms of what Sir Gert was experiencing. Gone is his normally calm as a cucumber disposition and in place is someone more frantic and a bit more fool hardy as he suggest a terrible and sudden course of action. We get this great parallel of both Poppy and Cyrenic being tired–both looking physically drained on the page which looks fantastic as the creative team knows how to work facial expressions, the lettering, and the coloring to a T here.

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