REVIEW: Unthinkable #4
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Writer(s): Mark Sable
Artist(s): Julian Totino Tedesco
Cover(s): Paul Azaceta
Colors: Nick Filardi
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
So much stuff goes down in this issue, I don’t even know how to summarize it. By the end of this issue Alan finds out who’s behind all the killings, and it’s a WTF moment for him (and the reader, if you all are as dense as I am).
What’s left of the Think Tank goes through with blowing up the LHC (not sure if that actually saved anyone, or just made it look like terrorists were blowing up everything), they stop a mass killing in China, then attempt to stop Isomer’s Doomsday scenario in Manhattan’s Financial District. Which consisted of three words, my friends: Nuclear. Hand. Grenade.
Only, no one’s ever actually figured out how to make a nuclear hand grenade. It’s just used as a red herring because the mysterious terrorist organization decides to pull off a more “thinkable” scenario by stealing huge amounts of financial date on personal/business computers worldwide in a very computer brainy way. The damage they do is so massive, “they” would have to rebuild the ‘Net from square one. I don’t know anything about computers and code and all that hoopla, so that seems like a serious amount of damage to me.
Alan is still convinced that his father is behind all of this and tries to torture a confession out of him, but the old man doesn’t break. He does sign the confession, but not with his name, and FBI Agent Skelly has to tell him who really is behind all this massive destruction. Alan’s mind is blown, and end scene. Holy cow, they just dropped the biggest bomb and leave everything to get resolved in the next issue.
So, I had an inkling that the person who ended up really being the mastermind behind everything was who it turned out to be, but it was still a really good twist. However, I’m pretty slow when it comes to these things, so everyone one else probably figured it out back in the second issue.
I’m still really enjoying this series, in that sick, twisted way were I can’t stop reading even though all it does is make me super-assed paranoid about EVERYTHING. Especially with the Internet thing! Crap, talk about reconsidering having all your personal information on a database somewhere and just living off the grid. Thanks for the hyper paranoia, Mark Sable! Also, I think I mention this every issue, but Tedesco’s art with Filardi’s colors are brilliant. I seriously wish some of those panels and pages were posters.
I don’t know how this is going to wrap up in one more issue because things are all sorts of major crazy at this end of this issue! So far, this is definitely a series to pick up in the trades.
