Bodies #1 – Review

By: Si Spencer (story), Meghan Hetrick, Dean Ornston, Tula Lotay, Phil Winslade (art), Lee Loughridge (colors)

The Story: Murder is the kind of history that tends to repeat itself.

The Review: Done with the Bar, finally—at least for the next few months. And yet, in the world of comics, life goes on as usual. It’s kind of comforting actually, to think that whether I pass or fail, there will always be comics. But enough with sentimentality; let’s talk about Bodies. One of the reasons why I loved Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers was for the narrative craft it took to use seven disparate stories to push each other forward as well as an overarching plot.

Bodies very much lands in the same mold, except you can see more clearly see the cooperation among the four storylines and their featured investigators: D.S. Shahara Hasan of 2014, Inspector Edmond Hillinghead of 1890, Detective Maplewood of 2050, and Inspector Charles Whiteman of 1940. Remarkably enough, Spencer is able to take each era in that order and still render a fairly smooth narrative.