NYX #7, from Dynamite Comics on June 8th, 2022, begins Nyx’s long road to raising five half-breed demons as part of her deal with her father, the Mad God Chaos. Can she rise five overpowered demon children without going crazy?
The Details
- Written By: Christos Gage
- Art By: Marc Borstel
- Colors By: Jordi Escuin Llorach
- Letters By: Taylor Esposito
- Cover Art By: Giuseppe Matteoni (cover A)
- Cover Price: $3.99
- Release Date: June 8, 2022
Was It Good?
Amusing. NYX #7 is flat-out amusing for all the right reasons. We’ve liked Gage’s story about Nyx struggling to forge a life for herself without her father’s baggage getting in the way of a good time, but the shining moments surface when Nyx is forced to do the unexpectedly absurd. Here, Nyx has to do plenty of absurd things, and it’s a hoot.
The strength of this issue is Gage’s comedic timing during what amount to an almost issue-long montage of Nyx flitting through different points in time for each child. The “parents” Nyx selects for each child couldn’t be any more different from each other, and each couple has a unique set of challenges to overcome in their own right – from a hard-to-keep-sober hippie couple in the 1960s to a Satan-worshipping biker couple from the 1980s. Each couple is a walking stereotype, and Nyx’s patronizing indifference to their stereotypical foibles is comedic gold.
The mild down point of the issue is the too-high pacing. The rapid-fire scene transitions help with the humor delivery, but the transitions and changes are so quick that you don’t get a clear vision of what makes each demon child unique. First, they’re infants. Then, they’re pre-teens. So, you get the joke, but the children are almost irrelevant.
Borstel and Llorach turn in great art in this issue. There are a few spots where the digital art looks pasted onto the scenery rather than integrated with it, but that’s to be expected from most digital art these days.
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What’s It About?
[SPOILERS AHEAD – Click here if you just want the score without spoilers]
Don’t gaze upon the horrors of unchanged demon diapers until you’ve first read our NYX #6 review.
We begin with Nyx going about her daily life trying to find a way to get her father’s demon babies to settle down. She eventually figures out they have a hunger for human energy just like her, so she takes them on a hunt to dispatch unsavory criminals.
Unfortunately, daily demon rearing proves too much, but Nyx gets an idea. She requests her father grant her some of his time traveling magic to “place” each child with a different couple she’s known throughout the years to help her raise each child to a manageable age. With time and weekly visits from Aunty Nyx, the demon children grow and mature.
Eventually, the children approach the age where Nyx’s bargain becomes a reality, and Nyx wonders if training her half-siblings to be harbingers for her father’s dreams of conquest might not be the best idea. We conclude the issue with life lessons and grand designs.
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Final Thoughts
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NYX #7 is a thoroughly amusing issue as Nyx is forced to play babysitter/parent to five very hungry demon children. The satirical jokes all land, the pacing is excellent, and the art is very good. That said, the pacing is so high that you don’t get a chance to learn about the children and what makes each special in their own right.
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