Death Sentence #6 - Graded B

Title:	Death Sentence
Contributors:	Monty Nero Michael Dowling
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Issue #:	6
Year:	2014
Pages:	32 Pages
Age Rating:	18 (Language, Violence, Gore, Sex, Adult Themes)
Story Grade:	C
Art Grade:	A

The end is finally here. Well not really I guess. It appears that the success of this short run series has spawned the promise of a continuation of the series in June. But, since the principle characters in this series only had six months to live, I am sure will have an entirely new set of characters to read about in the new book, or at least I would expect that to be the case.

In this issue of Death Sentence, #6, we arrive at the climatic ending to the story of Verity, Weasel and Monty. While I have remained vocally critical of the cliché writing of the characters I have enjoyed the story as a whole and this issue, while somewhat predictable, doesn't fail to satisfy, although the dialog is somewhat boring.

The characters...

Monty remains a douche. (Spoiler Alert) Even though you think Monty might begin turning down the right path, his doucheness does in fact remain intact.

Verity decides to pull her head out of her self-induced-head-up-her-own-ass-self-involved-I'm-a-failed-artist-depression-slide to save the the world.

Weasel decides that he might be able to do something for someone else for a change, but it's still only self motivated. Deep character flaws there.

(Spoiler Alert) Oh and Verity and Weasel hook up... as if you didn't see that coming.

The artwork remains in top form and true to the story. A constant through the series, the art and story keep very mature themes in place, so parents, please consider yourselves warned.

Verity comes into her own in this book. To say that she kicks some ass is an understatement, but the way she does is pretty bizarre, cool as hell, but bizarre.

(Spoiler Alert) Monty finally figures out a way to take on the world's military and it is not in the best interest of those people around him.

Weasel, well Weasel decides he just wants to get high and stay there. He doesn't care anymore.

The final battle sequence is well drawn, but the scripting is in my opinion awkward. It could be the british dialog that doesn't work for me... feels too formal in some places of the dialog. The artist's narrative felt out of place as well.

All in all I grade this book a B. The artwork is wonderful. The story itself is great, but the script (dialog and narratives) didn't work as well as they could for me.

Since this is a series wrap, I would grade the entire series a B. I know I had a lot of consistent issues with the characters, but that was really the only place I took issue with the series. The artwork was great, the story itself was great and outside of the dialog and narratives in the last issue, the scripting was great. The inclusion of a "How To" on publishing your own comic in each issue, #1 - #5 was a great way to motivate others to get busy creating and publishing their own content as well.

I would recommend this series to friends. And I will likely buy Issue #1 of the new run in June to see if it is going to be worth reading.

Until next time... Happy World Conquering.