American Carnage #7 Review

Writer: Bryan Hill / Artist: Leandro Fernandez / DC Comics Hill has a heightened awareness when it comes to multiplicity of issues circulating in American Carnage. The “They Who Fights Monsters” vibe that Richard and Shelia have to manage. Jennifer’s willing to use both her whiteness and sexuality to get exactly what she wants from any particular scenario. Wynn Morgan’s near absolute power as a white woman in the political domain. It’s this type of careful treading that distinguishes American Carnage among its peers. It’s this type of meticulousness that makes American Carnage a particularly poignant time capsule of 2019. The opening pages of American Carnage #7 capture the grandiosity of the Californian rich, while also emphasizing the deep darkness that surrounds the entire Morgan family. Fernandez’s artwork with White’s colors, create a landscape of darkness, where shadows seem to hug the surface to make it clear that this place, these people are in foreboding circumstances. This is a perpetual visual thematic but cements the series as a brilliant noir story. Hill’s narration and dialog, told predominantly through Jennifer before switching perspectives to Richard, remains terse and target. Every word calculated to have a precise impact, a pinpoint response.

With Richard as complicated in the Morgan family drama and the lives of various white supremacists as he could possibly be, he is tasked with protecting one of Jennifer’s childhood friends by using his connections with…