BOOM! Studios presents Pine & Merrimac #1, an all-new original mystery series revolving around an independent detective agency run by a husband-and-wife duo. Penned by Eisner Award-winning writer Kyle Starks, illustrated and colored by Dune: House Harkonnen artist Fran Galán, with letters by the legendary Pat Brosseau. Retired cop Linnea and former prizefighter Parker restrict themselves to working small and inconsequential cases, operating their detective agency out of the same small hometown Linnea’s sister went missing from when she was a little girl.Pine & Merrimac #1 opens with a typical day in the lives of Parker and Linnea Kent in the sleepy town of Jamesport. The pair mainly deal with small-time surveillance gigs — exposing adultery and insurance scams — and the occasional irked former case. However, all that changes when the case of a missing girl surfaces, and Linnea decides that in order to exorcise old ghosts, the pair must solve it.The strangely elaborate and overly descriptive dialogue is even more baffling considering the extended expository flashback section that follows. Although Linnea feels relatively multifaceted, most of Parker’s characterization is one-dimensional and, therefore, ends up boring, failing to flesh out anything interesting within the “devoted wife guy” archetype. Much of his dialogue feels flat and occasionally descends into eye-rolling levels of cheesy, failing to capture any wit or emotional dimension to his dedication to his wife. This plays into another unfortunate factor of the characterization: the brains-and-brawn division of labor between Linnea and Parker is interesting in theory, but in practice, the balance is so skewed that it occasionally ends up making Parker feel deeply stunted or childlike, at moments coming across as less of a romantic relationship and one that borders on a mother/child dynamic. Even tangentially viewing the couple and their interactions through this lens is squeamishly uncomfortable and briefly scuppers emotional investment into them as characters when it arises.
BOOM! Studios presents Pine & Merrimac #1, an all-new original mystery series revolving around an independent detective agency run by a husband-and-wife duo. Penned by Eisner Award-winning writer Kyle Starks, illustrated and colored by Dune: House Harkonnen artist Fran Galán, with letters by the legendary Pat Brosseau. Retired cop Linnea and former prizefighter Parker restrict themselves to working small and inconsequential cases, operating their detective agency out of the same small hometown Linnea’s sister went missing from when she was a little girl.
Pine & Merrimac #1 opens with a typical day in the lives of Parker and Linnea Kent in the sleepy town of Jamesport. The pair mainly deal with small-time surveillance gigs — exposing adultery and insurance scams — and the occasional irked former case. However, all that changes when the case of a missing girl surfaces, and Linnea decides that in order to exorcise old ghosts, the pair must solve it.
The strangely elaborate and overly descriptive dialogue is even more baffling considering the extended expository flashback section that follows. Although Linnea feels relatively multifaceted, most of Parker’s characterization is one-dimensional and, therefore, ends up boring, failing to flesh out anything interesting within the “devoted wife guy” archetype. Much of his dialogue feels flat and occasionally descends into eye-rolling levels of cheesy, failing to capture any wit or emotional dimension to his dedication to his wife. This plays into another unfortunate factor of the characterization: the brains-and-brawn division of labor between Linnea and Parker is interesting in theory, but in practice, the balance is so skewed that it occasionally ends up making Parker feel deeply stunted or childlike, at moments coming across as less of a romantic relationship and one that borders on a mother/child dynamic. Even tangentially viewing the couple and their interactions through this lens is squeamishly uncomfortable and briefly scuppers emotional investment into them as characters when it arises.
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