Beautiful Canvas #2 Review

Writer: Ryan K Lindsay / Artist: Sami Kivelä / Black Mask Studios If you’ve read my review of the first issue of Beautiful Canvas, you’ll know that I was blown away. Seriously. One of my favorite comic book debuts this year. And surely one of the greatest openings of a comic this year. I’ve been eager to get my hands on the next issue of this warped tale set in a what much like our own with all types of folks who happen to be involved directly or indirectly with the shady underworld of hitwomen and hitmen and odd shit happening. This issue starts hella strange but it is actually a great setup to explore more of the head space of the little boy that Lon has rescued, who is now residing in the home of Lona and her girlfriend, Asia. First, what…five pages in and this comic wants to remind me that it’s creative team will still be plating out this story with that grand element of surprise heaped on the side. This is a trip. Not only do we get a look into the head space of this kid but we also get an a better picture of Asia, the pregnant girlfriend of Lon and her amazing abilities that just fit right inside this stranger universe that we find ourselves in while reading. It’s a trippy sequence of pages that throw you for a loop. We find out from Asia as she confides in Lon that the child is perhaps an experiment of some kind, her DNA is scrambled and he has a long road ahead of him if he wants to survive. Plus, I haven’t got gotten to certain hitwomen who lurk nearby yet. Writer …