Hollowed #3 is a comic written by Casey Bowker with art by Darius Johnson. Our two detectives still can’t get along but they manage to make some progress on the case. While the series started in Chicago it is now firmly entrenched in Buffalo. Vasquez Guerra hails from the Windy City and has taken over this case whereas Tyler Gorman is in a bad place mentally after losing his partner and being forced into this team up. I can count at least three different directions this plot goes with regards to the various characters and it’s one of those situations where we’ll just have to see what happens. There is a decent amount of action here, possibly the most we’ve seen so far in this series. This issue is significantly less wordy than the last but it still has a few hotspots. It reads more like a conversation than a book though. These characters do a lot of talking. After a slowed-down second issue this series is starting to pick up the pace again.

            It seems like for this issue they took the art style of the first one and combined it with the coloring of the second to bring us something that looks very nice. However, this style has backgrounds fade out of scenes once we’ve established a location. But this won’t leave you confused about where the characters are. One thing this series has maintained throughout is the detail in the faces. Between the wear-and-tear on the skin and the eye movement we can learn a little bit about this cast without reading a word. The fight scenes flow well and the attacks look like they hurt. I think every woman in this issue has a wagon.

“Is this worth reading?”

Yes.

“Would I like this?”

If you like crime-solving shows with a good amount of drama and shady organizations this is for you.

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

R.

“Could I get a quote from the comic?”

“Let me go and I’ll explain everything baby.”

 

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

Probably Contains Spoilers

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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 22

Violent Pages: 5, for 23% of the comic

Sexy Pages: 2, for 9% 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 – 3

“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 – 1

“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 – 3

“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.”