A review by mark_johnson
Extremity Volume 1: Artist by Daniel Warren Johnson

5.0

This is the most devastating and depressing story that I have experienced for a while. This is a story of Thea, best artist of her clan, who together with her father takes revenge after the enemy clan kills her mother, cut her right arm and takes her home. For me, this is a revenge story done right, by showing vengeance how it is – cruel, violent, unfair and destructible for all parties. It blinds a person, it`s obsessive nature takes away everything good that one has and turns into the same thing as an enemy. The most painful part in all of this is how relatable and understandable main characters desire for vengeance is - they lost their home, their loved ones and, in some way, they lost themselves. I`m an artist myself and even if I`m not entirely self-identifying only as one, the idea of losing this part of me makes my skin crawls. But still, it is hard to see how revenge and bloodlust consume people and close the vicious circle, and it seems like it`s no end to it. There's the second part of the story, but I need some time to recover after this.