![]() The band shied away from the greatest hits that the discography has to offer, and the focus was solely on the new album Viva Las Vengeance which was performed from start to finish. The band took the stage amidst thunderous applause and kicked off the show with their hit song Say Amen (Saturday Night) From there, they launched into a 6-song barrage of high-energy pop-rock hits that came to a halt when the band performed Emperor’s New Clothes.Īfter that, the show took a turn. Panic! At The Disco’s concert was what we have come to expect from a Panic! show: an electrifying experience where Urie’s energy on stage was unmatched. For this last run through Europe, Panic! At The Disco truly pulled out all stops, with half an orchestra on stage to assist the band in performing the songs on this fine night. ![]() In Rotterdam’s Ahoy, which holds capacity for 16.000 people, Panic! At The Disco played a set consisting of their greatest hits and the entirety of the brand new effort Viva Las Vengeance. To go out with a bang, Panic! At The Disco came to promote the release of the brand new album Viva Las Vengeance in front of their biggest Dutch crowd. A thrilling pressure cooker of a disaster comic that will keep you hooked from start to finish.It was a bittersweet night, as Panic! At The Disco were in the country for the last time. ![]() Overall then, while some of the themes and dialogue are perhaps a little on the nose, there is more than enough tension and drama to keep the pages turning rapidly throughout. Which, when you consider this series was originally based around the resilience of New Yorkers after 9/11, definitely makes sense. There’s a definite message about books and covers mixed in here, particularly in terms of the aforementioned social and political differences, but for the most part this is a story about human beings overcoming (or in some cases failing to overcome) a truly horrific situation. There are a few story choices that perhaps didn’t work quite as well as others – for me, at least – including one victim of the crash, clearly in shock, resorting to cannibalism just a few hours after the incident, but for this most part the narrative here is grounded and believable, and packed with an almost tangible feeling of discomfort. A liberal use of shadows and plenty of cramped panels really helps to hammer home the claustrophobic nature of our survivors’ predicament, and while things occasionally get a little chaotic and difficult to follow (perhaps intentionally), Mutti definitely feels like the perfect choice to bring a story like this to life. Visually, Mutti does a stellar job of ramping up the aforementioned tension with his distinctive scratchy style. Thankfully, as the story unfolds, a few of them get a little more depth added to them, and several of them – train driver Tim in particular – are thoroughly intriguing creations from beginning to end. Sure, some of Kleid’s characters are perhaps a little one-dimensional, but watching the friction caused by them scraping up against one another in this impossibly tense situation makes them feel a lot more relatable. This is a purely character focused story, an approach which seems to play heavily into Kleid’s knack for thoroughly believable dialogue. The events, whatever they may be, that are causing such widespread disruption to New York – including the train crash itself – are very much secondary to the immediate situation going on in the tunnel. ![]() One thing I particularly liked about this story is the fact that it isn’t at all preoccupied with what’s going on in the rest of the world. Tempers flare and different personalities, political ideologies and moral outlooks are forced to coexist in a thrilling battle for survival as they try to escape the tunnel to reach an outside world that may not be the same one they left behind. Writer Neil Kleid and artist Andrea Mutti do a fantastic job of conveying the feeling of claustrophobic tension as a a group of ten diverse strangers find themselves trapped beneath the Hudson River when their train derails. Thankfully, Dark Horse continue to bring these fantastic creator-owned digital comics to the direct market, and hopefully this will help get even more eyeballs onto this truly gripping disaster series. too many comics, not enough time) I wasn’t able to follow the story in subsequent months. ![]() I picked up the first issue on ComiXology back when it was first released, and thoroughly enjoyed what I read, but for one reason or another (i.e. This week, Dark Horse Comics are collecting all five issues of the ComiXology Originals digital series ‘The Panic’ in print for the first time. And there were more important things at stake than the fate of a runaway train. ![]()
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