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Colder: Toss The Bones #3
Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: November 25th, 2015.
Written by: Paul Tobin
Illustrated by: Juan Ferreyra
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New to this series? Check out our reviews of the first two issues here! Got it? Good. This third issue continues with Nimble Jack's attempts to get rid of Declan regardless of who or what gets in his way. Kids? Old ladies? Dogs? They're all disposable if it helps the insane dimension hopping entity that is Nimble Jack get what he wants. And then there are the pigeons.
Picking up where issue #2 left off, Declan and Reece are booking it through the park as fast as they're able, birds behind them at every step. They hop in a cab unsure of what they've just seen, just experienced. They run into their building, birds above them, birds all around them, and take the elevator upstairs to their apartment. Afraid that Jack will follow them, they lock the doors and all the windows and then notice a new door in the kitchen, one that wasn't there when they left, on that goes into an outside wall.
As the apartment fills with pigeons, they notice a doorbell. It rings, and then someone on the other side knocks. Just then, Jack shows up, opens the door… and let's himself in. Reece puts a butcher knife through his head but it doesn't do any good. Jack stuffs a pigeon in Declan's mouth and leads them on a tour of their new room. They look down on the world through a hole in the floor, Jack calls the world below his kitchen… for snacks. And then he builds Declan some new fingers.
Jack tells them he's going to be their new roommate, at least until he decides that its' time to eat them.
Juan Ferreyra's art continues to be beautiful in some surprisingly grotesque ways. This is, hands down, the goriest issue of the storyline so far and he really doesn't pull any punches here, it's pretty strong stuff, but the use of color (assisted by Eduardo Ferreyra and Nicolas Brondo) really brings things to a whole different level. The early scenes in the park are actually kind of pretty even if Declan and Reece are running for their lives but once Jack manifests and takes them on his tour, all bets are off and things get nuts.
This latest issue takes a dark story into even darker territory as Jack manifests and brings Declan and Reece into his world. When Jack is able to call the shots and pretty much control everything around him there's no way that things can go well for our heroes, and they don't. We won't spoil the last part of the book, but no, they don't go well at all. In fact, they go very badly for them indeed. You kind of knew this was coming though, there's got to be a showdown of sorts for this series to make sense and Tobin gives it to us, though not in the way that you'd expect and that there is where the series starts to get compelling. By the time you hit the last page character arcs have shifted in a big way but the power struggle remains. Anything can happen from this point on, or so it would seem.
