Tomorrow Comes Today: Days of Hate #12 Review

Writer: Ales Kot / Artist: Daniel Zezelj / Image Comics This is that swan song. Not a loud, splash-page-filled extravaganza full of pageantry. Not an action-laden, muscle-bound slobber-knocker with a flock of John Woo doves before the gunfight type comic. But a patient, masterful narrative executed by thoughtful use of peripheral characters. Days of Hate #12 brings the last few chickens home to roost and brings a phenomenal arc to an end. Days of Hate has been a powerful story so far and the finale of the run returns to the ‘less is more’ format. Ales Kot has achieved a rare thing with DoH in general, but really drives the point home in this last issue. Aptly titled “Anthem For No Nation”, readers are left to watch this fictional world pick up the pieces after the bombshell events of the last two issues. All the primary plot threads were sewn up by the end of the last issue, so what story could there possibly be to tell and how would it compel anyone to read it? Simple, really. Just have those plot threads tied off with a strong knot, one that grasps every last bit of string that Ales Kot dropped into the story. In the age of POTUS tweets that affect global policy, where the actual news cycle is inane and ludicrous; Days of Hate looks deeply into the black mirror and doesn’t blink. In a moment that can only be described as cute, the last words of the issue note that sanity is something we see very little of.

It is easy to overlook the artwork in a narrative written so well, …