The illustrations are still top-notch, but the seriousness and the chosen tone make this third chapter more darkly than the last two issues. Is that a shot on today’s generation of wealthy brats around who are just wasting their time partying around, whining on basically anything trivial, and doing basically nothing to improve at all? Anyhow, the end of this one reads like a usual superhero (or synonymous with that one) moment of reckoning and hopefully, some answers or tying loose-ends narrative tropes. I believe that the author wants young readers to be reminded of that one because everyone has to work his/her way up, whoever she/he is and when he/she comes from.
The most poignant parts in Diesel #3 are the potential reveal of the antagonists’ strongholds, and one or two pages, the inhabitant’s important wisdom imparted to the good lady-HARD WORK. Thus, this second-to-the-last issue makes my reading experience a little dragging, despite the accessibility of the language and the potentiality of unlocking the main character’s true abilities. Seriously though, aside from the few introductory pages, most of the time here focuses on Diesel and her lost-found friend, more conversations than action. Hesse’s wordings are sometimes witty, more direct, and a bit serious, especially the bantering moments, and even the juxtaposing of the casts’ respective backgrounds and perspectives, implying the usual storytelling theme of the differentiation of one’s roots, particularly the so-called “heaven-and-earth” clashing points-of-views (Diesel is the former, while her counterpart is the latter as explicitly mentioned in their conversations).
And the rest of the interiors are focused more on dialogues and interactions with another new character (actually, if one observe closely in the first pages, that one already appeared).
There are also interesting introductions of the older crews of the famed air transportation as part of the connectivity to the coming-of-age femme whose real challenges are beginning to unravel. We are first treated with a couple of flashbacks or dream-sequence of the titular character’s first encounter with the so-called “very special people” or “Brothers” who may likely appear in the fourth (and deciding?) chapter, until reality checks get the best of her.
Sure, the narrative is accessibly straightforward, or to be blunt here, more conventional. After the shocking reveal in the second chapter of Tyson Hesse’s DIESEL, it is best to take a breather or two in the rather slow paced third penultimate issue.
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