Sunday 9 January 2011

Comics Greatest Moments #8

Whiteout #4


November 1998

"Chapter Four"



By Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber

After three complete issues of intense and engaging mystery, the killer was finally revealed in the final chapter of "Whiteout," and while many people guessed the answer correctly on the first read-through of the trade, and thanks to the film it's all the more obvious, comic book readers everywhere were shocked to see Carrie confront Doc, and for him to reveal his part in the crimes.


The raw emotion that came from the sequence, as Carrie learned the dark secrets of her father figure made the scene a gut-punch, while Greg Rucka's fantastic writing had lulled us into a false sense of security and created a character who we really believed and cared about; to see him revealed as a monstrous individual, fuelled by desperation and greed was truly horrifying.

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