Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley craft an even more
engaging and intricate chapter in the world of The Beauty Vol. 4 (Issue
#17-21). The story of The Beauty follows
a sexual transmitted disease that makes people “beautiful” and who wouldn’t
want that? When people with The Beauty
start to mysteriously die people start to wonder whether or not The Beauty is
responsible or if there is something more nefarious going on. The series does a great job as an anthology
focusing on different aspects and characters of the world and how they are
affected by the disease (whether some people see it as such or not).
In this volume Cooper is a journalistic blogger who gets
involved with a whistle blower who works for Abericorp, a corporation who has
deep ties with The Beauty. Cooper,
seeing a cover-up, tries to learn as much as he can to expose the truth about
what Abericorp knows about the truth of The Beauty even if it puts his life in
dangerous.
Haun & Hurley know how to craft a story build around
corporate espionage, government secrets, and the truth in journalism in the
hopes of bringing “the truth” to the people before it’s too late. From the very first issue of this engaging
and electrifying series what may have started as a simple story about an
infectious disease that makes people “beautiful” has become a cautionary tale
about so many other things. You’d think
that presenting the stories in an anthology format would be detrimental to the
overall series, instead, it allows the whole series to constantly introduce new
characters that the reader cares about even if you don’t know their fate.
Matthew Don Smith (Issue #12) and Thomas Nachlik (Issue
#18-21) have different styles but they compliment the entire series and
especially each of the individual stories that are being told. This is one of my favorite series and it just
gets better and better.
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