True Blood #13 Review


True Blood #13 is the third part in the current story arc, “Here We Go Again.” It begins with Jason coming face-to-face with the truth behind Amy’s sudden ability to go out in the sunlight and it’s not anything Jason wants to face himself and things literally start to unravel.

Official description from IDW:

With creative collaboration from TRUE BLOOD creator/writer/producer Alan Ball, actor/writer Michael McMillian continues a climactic arc that has former Merlotte’s waitresses returning from the dead!

Following Jason’s new discovery, Sam finally puts and end to his doubt about Daphne and bizarre transformations begin to take place at an alarming rate. Sookie has looked into Katie’s mind and knows she’s up to no good it’s just a matter of convincing everyone else around her of waht’s in Katie’s head. Officer Bellefleur reveals the connection of the old woman who Sam put to rest a couple of issues back. An escapee from Meadowglade clinic in Baton Rouge the same hospital Lafayette’s mother resides. Sookie investigates and comes to learn what a physical impossibility that would have been for the old woman and kicking off a new mystery.

Writer Michael McMillian lets it all hang out in issue 13 and ramps each story line to deliver absolute chaos. The reveals are fast and furious with the final one being a lynch pin to the truth behind Katie for someone other than Sookie. This can’t end well and mostly it doesn’t. It is however a great issue to move all the story lines forward by answering, for the most part, several head-scratching mysteries. Beni Lobel’s art is still very serviceable and fitting to the title with his heavy lines and darkness which sets the ominous mood of True Blood. I’m not sure it would suit the title very well if the lines were clean and detailed. Most likely it would work against it.

It’s always a good time when a story opens up the flood gates and takes the reader on a wild ride making your head spin. For a book like True Blood it truly gets you blood pumping building anticipation for the next issue. Good serials survive this way and True Blood delivers in spades this time round.

4/5

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