#Into infinite obscurity tab series#

And when Tab reunites with her now elderly mother at the Lovely Gloaming retirement resort toward the end, it’s bittersweet. Other brief flashbacks establish Tab’s mother at the top of her game as the sex symbol of “Trawl Hunters” and at her low as she “amicably part ways” with a purple-hued lover. It immediately establishes their relationship and smartly sets the tone for their future partnership. In fact, the very first panel is Tabitha’s stick figure facsimile of her mother, riddled with bullets and knives, X’s in her eyes. She’s a foul-mouthed star of the huntertainment world, a figure who isn’t held in high esteem by her daughter, Tabitha. Selena Tubach (aka Scarlet Sylph) thirty years ago amid her retinue of hovering cameras. One used to soak in the spotlight, but now the other seeks obscurity. Upper-right or lower-left edges are excised by the dimensional edges depending on whether their speakers are leaving or entering new strings.Īt the center of this multiverse madness lies the strained relationship between mother and daughter. Dialogue continues uninterrupted despite string-hopping, and the word balloons acknowledge this. Even the word balloons themselves can’t escape the reality-slicing nature of the puncturers. It’s a subtle way of showing the malleable nature of the multiverse.

The black lines of each panel border are erased when connecting with the odd cubist geometry of every punctured portal. Between each string jump, the panels have jagged concave and convex edges, infusing them with a sense of permeability. The panel structure itself smartly incorporates parallel Earth traversal into its design. It’s an exciting chase scene that establishes the quickfire pacing and brutality of the series. String 4333981, String 4333984…with each blast of the puncturer, Tab rips through parallel strings, thrown into various settings and the alt-humans who inhabit them. Our lead heroine, Tabitha Tubach, chases a naked, hirsute man as he streaks toward escape. It isn’t long before we’re thrown into the madcap world of interdimensional bounty hunting in the issue’s standout action sequence.

Think Alan Moore’s “Top 10” with the portal gun from “Rick Morty.” There’s an impressive amount of world building done in its first 22 pages, detailing the lunacy traveling to parallel Earths have wrought.

#Into infinite obscurity tab series#

Infinite parallel realities or “strings” offer a mother lode of story potential in “Motherlands,” a frenetic action series that dives deep into its science fiction premise. Read on for our review of Vertigo’s latest which contains minor spoilers. A mother sought fame in this multiversal murder business while her daughter quietly followed in her footsteps-and a son was lost in the multi-dimensional shuffle.

In a crazed future where unhinged technologies and interconnected parallel Earths have given rise to a spectacular class of super-criminal, the most beloved celebrities aren’t actors or rock stars, but the bounty hunters who traverse an exotic multiverse in search of impossible prey! But when the spotlight-shunning, strait-laced tracer known as Tab finds herself in an ultra-violent race for her greatest prize yet, she’s forced to work with her greatest enemy, the only person capable of IDing him: her own elderly, overbearing and hypercritical mother, who was once the most fabulous and celebrated bounty hunter of them all.īounty hunters blast holes through parallel dimensions in search of their next target-and a quick paycheck.