Review: Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story
Mat Johnson, writer of Incognegro, and Simon Gane, artist on The Vinyl Underground, release their Hurricane Katrina tribute Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story tomorrow. The style of this book reminds me of more “serious” graphic novels like Fun Home and the recently published Revolver. Vertigo Comics puts out another good one.
You can read my early review of Dark Rain at OneMetal.
Five years after the water hit shores, Mat Johnson and Simon Gane still acknowledge the need for remembering the widespread destruction Hurricane Katrina caused. Their tribute, Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story, goes on sale tomorrow from Vertigo Comics and inspires a story of hope.
When Katrina lands, surprising even New Orleans locals with its severity, wronged ex-cons Dabny Arceneaux and Emmit Jack leave their assigned halfway house to capitalize upon their blessing in disguise. With the flooded population seizing every opportunity to escape to higher and safer ground, “J.D.” and his unlikely partner “Rockefeller” contact the security force Dark Rain, hoping they’ll lend their expertise in robbing Louisiana’s now vulnerable Banque de Congo Square. But Driggs, who leads the Dark Rain company of post-duty soldiers embittered over the government’s cold shoulder treatment, also specializes in backstabbing and corruption (a theme that undercurrents the book), and he tasks his team with beating the undermanned and unprepared Dabny and Emmit to the bank.
