I really enjoyed Christopher Cantwell/INJ Culbard’s first Everything book so I was a bit worried to see no comics being published for nearly a year after the fifth issue - would the story remain untold? So I was delighted to see the second, and final, volume pop up seemingly outta the blue - apparently Dark Horse decided to release the last five issues as a graphic novel rather than individually before the trade.That said… I found Everything, Volume 2: Black Friday disappointing, unfortunately. Cantwell does answer a lot of the strange mysteries set up in the first book but, as sometimes happens, the setup turned out to be more interesting than the resolution in most cases.
I understood why Everything was doing what it was doing, even if “why” was kinda generic, but I didn’t get why Gooder, the big boss himself, did the things he did or what really happened to his character in the final act. It just seemed like Cantwell needed an arbitrary big bad to end the book on a cliched final battle and, even though it wasn’t set up or made much sense, Gooder was “it”.
The chapter on Gooder’s origins was compelling, though, again, his actions against the man who gave him his big break were baffling. Culbard’s art is excellent too - he’s a master of drawing simple, yet unnervingly effective, horror.
I’m glad we at least got a conclusion to the story, though it’s an underwhelming finale - if you were a fan of the first book, don’t get your hopes up too high with Everything, Volume 2: Black Friday.
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