The Seer Chronicles: Family Matters is a comic written by Greg Moquin with art by Dan Gorman, Shaun Barbour, and Febri Ferdian. A detective in debt to dangerous people does whatever he can to get the money. This is a dramatic science fiction tale with mob-based crime elements. The main man for this story is Silva, he is a gruff, down-on-his-luck detective who likes to gamble and has run up huge debts with different people. He has an uncle named Harry who performs experiments on a primate. There are more than a few characters from the previous issue that make an appearance here, one of them being the firefighter named John. The story begins with some newspaper clippings of recent events before we follow Silva as he descends into his uncle’s basement. He finds his uncle and the primate attempting some sort of experiment but Silva gets his uncle upstairs for breakfast. The action here gets very bloody with light gore. The pacing is steady with a seriously desperate tone. There many intense moments due to violence and fear. The dialogue is conversational and very aggressive with good back-and-forth. No word-heavy pages here unless you count the newspapers, but those don’t really count. This is an issue that focuses on a character living dangerous in a story that will answer some questions but leave you with others.

            The art here is in a somewhat modern style with sketch-like shading. The color range is both wide and realistic. The only real scenery here is the skyline and the moon at night. This takes place deep in the city with seedy bars and backrooms being some of the main locations. Other places visited include the docks, a restaurant, and hideouts. The backgrounds more often than not show the scene with its surroundings but on very rare occasions it’ll be a gradient color full of action lines. The expression level here is slightly above-average as these react realistically to the situations they are in. The emotional range here mostly consists of fear and anger with some shock and bewilderment. The faces have an overall decent amount of detail from the eyes to the mouths so every expression is comes across clearly. The violence here is mainly physical with hand-to-hand combat being significant but it does involve a large amount of firearms as well. There are many hard hits with things getting bloody with a light level of gore. The action scenes have a decent flow overall but there are moments where the sequencing doesn’t make much sense and you might get confused.

“Is this worth reading?”

Yes.

“Would I like this?”

If you like science fiction stories that involve the mob and star a detective with heavy debts and also having drama, violence, and a primate then this is for you.

“What would this comic’s film rating be?”

R. Violence, gore.

“Could I get a quote from the comic?”

“I have my ways…plus I brought my own cheese.”

 

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***IN-DEPTH COMIC STATS BELOW***

Probably Contains Spoilers

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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 32

Violent Pages: 10, for 31% of the comic

Sexy Pages: 0, for 0% of the comic

 

**The levels below aren’t necessarily maintained throughout the whole comic, but they were definitely reached**

 

Violence Level – 3

“Wasn’t no tussling at all.”

“Sometimes you gotta hit somebody.”

“I’m getting charged with how many counts of assault?”

“This was a tournament arc.”

“All my life I had to fight.”

 

Gore Level – 4

“The only thing leaking out your face is tears.”

“Looks like somebody spilled some ketchup.”

“Might need to soak that up with a bath towel.”

“That isn’t supposed to be outside the body.”

“This is a slaughterhouse.”

 

Death Level – 3

“And everybody lived happily ever after.”

“We might have gone to a couple funerals.”

“It just LOOKS like a serial killer was here.”

“Yeah this was a tragedy.”

“Think Gettysburg.”

 

Porn Level – 1

“Everybody kept their clothes on.”

“I guess it was too hot for a bra.”

“Sometimes you got to let everything air out.”

“This is like late night Cinemax in the early 2000’s.”

“Oh. This is porn.”