The New Gods #6 – Ram V, Writer; Evan Cagle, Filipe Andrade, Artists; Francesco Segala, Colorist
Ray – 9.5/10
Ray: For the majority of this series, Evan Cagle has handled the majority of art duties with a guest artist tackling a few pages to cover a different time and place. This issue reverses that, with Ram V’s frequent collaborator Filipe Andrade stepping in to do about 75% of the issue. For those who aren’t familiar with Andrade, he’s been the artist on V’s masterful supernatural adventures “The Many Deaths of Laila Starr” and “Rare Flavours”, and he brings a fascinating dreamlike quality to the stories. That makes him a perfect choice for this issue, as he takes Lightray into the next step of his journey. Wait, Lightray? Didn’t he die last issue? Well, nothing is ever as simple as that in comics, especially where Gods are concerned. So in this issue, we follow Lightray beyond the veil as he discovers a whole new realm – and encounters the realm’s permanent resident, the Black Racer.
This character has always been the most mysterious of the New Gods, often tied to a human but always beyond even the normal Gods. He’s Death after all, and Death is inevitable. The depictions of the race that the Black Racer and Lightray engage in are truly stunning, some of the best visual segments of the series so far. There are also some powerfully emotional scenes as Highfather comes to terms with this loss and thinks back on how Lightray first became a New God. Evan Cagle’s segments are the ones set back on Earth, as the Justice League gathers to protect the child Orion is hunting. The New Gods have been a great fixture in the DCU ever since Kirby created them, but many writers have a tendency to write them as simple alien bruisers. Ram V. is probably the first creator since Tom King to really capture that Kirby-esque secret sauce that makes them so fascinating.
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