Seven Secrets #14 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor / Artist: Daniele Di Nicuolo / Boom! Studios It’s hard to say exactly how far we have truly progressed in the grand scheme of Seven Secrets, but it is in fact very evident that wherever the story is headed to next, it is going there very quickly. Amon and Canto are expediting their machinations on one side of the globe, and Casper is currently processing the severity of his present circumstances while also being haunted by a nightmarish figure in his sleep. Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo know exactly how to stress me out, and I love/hate them for it. Seven Secrets #14 is a prime example of the potency of dramatic irony done well. We as readers have more pieces of the puzzle than the characters in-story, and we also have a wider perspective of everything that is going on. The somberness we feel for Casper and Ava is bolstered by the forgone conclusion Narrator-Casper has told from the start. The tension in our gut as Canto infiltrates a safehouse on the Irish Coast is amplified by everything we have witnessed in the last two years. And yet, there are still so many unanswered questions that Taylor constantly teases. It’s a hallmark of masterful story telling in the way that he is capable of titrating just enough information each issue while also being deliberately obscure at times.

This is also a great time to shoutout letterer Ed Dukeshire’s whose dialog bubbles and boxes help accentuate all of the different levels of plot and character development. I…