Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body #3 Review

Writer: Christopher Cantwell / Artist: Luca Casalanguida / Boom! Studios As the narrator exposes all of the different ways the very peculiar mission our lovable band of misfits is on could easily go wrong, there is something electrifying about how Cantwell and Casalanguida continue to blend the write and artwork of this series. The writing has this playfulness to it, a self-aware egregiousness of the absurdity of the situation. The artwork has this casualness to it, the way we leisurely follow a car on a highway on its way to a hospital where an autopsy is being informed. Both come together in how we abruptly jump back in and examine the ever-evolving circumstances of how this situation came to be a problem in the first. The cadence is brilliant, and the rest of the issue continues to be a fantastic read. With Sonny dead at the end of the last issue, the group doesn’t have too much time to fret as they finally catch news about Kennedy’s assassination over the radio. They deal with some moderate mourning and with the fact that they are somehow implicated in the event given that Sonny’s a lookalike for Lee Harvey Oswald. And thus commences the latest series of shenanigans of transporting the body. Cantwell and Casalanguida work wonderfully together. When Cantwell’s dialog is short and terse, Casalanguida makes it a point to use smaller panels for each onomatopoeia and expletive to give it its own room to breathe. When the dialog is flowing, the artwork takes up more of the page…