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The One HandandThe Six Fingers , fromImage Comics , are present referee with a unique narrative feat , not just with how the loop miniseries tale are being told , but how their two different main fictional character ' perspectives work together . Or , alternatively , against one another . In an interview with Screen Rant , carbon monoxide - creatorsRam V and Dan Watterstalked about what their link up narration have in common , and what key them .
Ram V’sThe One Handfocuses on detective Ari Nassar , who is pulled back into an old case on the Clarence Day of his retirement , as the eponymous " One bridge player " orca scratch again , despite the case allegedly having been solved .
The Six Fingers , from Dan Watters , follows Johannes Vale , who the first egress establishes intrust the latest One Hand slaying . The twirl is , he has no approximation why , or how , setting him off on his own investigation in parallel to Nassar . In this way , author Ram Vnoted that " technically , it ’s two police detective storey that we ’re tell , " though in radically dissimilar ways .
Writers Ram V & Dan Watters craft an intricate , exciting dual tale with their miniseries , " The One bridge player " and " The Six Fingers , " from icon
The One Hand & The Six Fingers Deliver Two Different Sides Of A Murder Investigation
The Six Fingers#1 – Written By Dan Watters; Art By Sumit Kumar, Color By Lee Loughridge, & Lettering By Aditya Bidikar
The Six Fingersis " very much an inception story " for a serial killer , accord to Watters , but at his effect , Johannes Vale is as much a tec as Nassar , the man chasing him .
InThe Six Fingers#1 , focal grapheme Johannes Vale put an impossible slaying . " Johannes was a little kid when the last One Hand execution were taking place – so that ’s part of the whole mystery of the thing,“his creator , Dan Watters , explicate . Yet somehow , Vale – while blacked out and not in mastery of his action – supervise not only to send a brutal execution , but to flawlessly replicate the One Hand aught , the killer whale ’s signature tune , which was never to the full relinquish to the public . This makes Vale ’s quest to uncover what is going on just as urgent as detective Ari Nassar ’s .
In this agency , Six Fingersis " very much an origin story " for a sequent killer whale , according to Watters , butat his core , Johannes Vale is as much a detective as Nassar , the man chamfer him . Watters offer some further insight into his reference :
He ’s jr. , and he ’s a bit of a nasty piece of piece of work , but I also did n’t want to write – I love write villain , but I did n’t require to do a variety of hand - rubbing , obsessed serial killer as the protagonist of a Holy Writ . I wanted to do someone who was more of a detective in their own right field . Not in as black - and - white of a way . That ’s why I gravitate toward realise him an faculty member . He ’s someone who require to be in ascendancy of his living in all times , and has absolutely lost control .
An archeology student , Vale is used to bring out the past ’s deeply swallow up closed book – but now , his living , and the living of others , hang in the balance as he determines to understand how he could have institutionalize the One Hand putting to death , and evenly importantly , why he did it .
Ram V & Dan Watters Offer Two Wildly Divergent Investigators, Chasing The Same Answers
The One Hand#1 – Written By Ram V; Art By Laurence Campbell, Color By Lee Loughridge, & Lettering By Aditya Bidikar
The One HandandThe Six Fingersshare a core mystery , and share the importunity of untangle it , but they come at it from significantly divergent tip - of - view , ensue in a gap in both characters ' understanding of the series ' events that only readers … will be capable to bridge over .
" He is a foil to Ari [ Nassar ] in a lot of room , " Dan Watters explained ofSix Fingersprotagonist Johannes Vale , " and they both kind of have the same fatal defect , which is that they wo n’t barricade . They ’re two sides of the same coin in that way . " AsRam V , writer ofThe One Handand creator of Detective Nassar elaborated further , their books might face on the surface to be " two stories , where one is a detective , and the other is a killer , " but the narrative dynamic is , in fact , more complex than that .
" Technically , it ’s two investigator chronicle that we ’re enjoin , " Ram V clarified , " and so the real counterpoint is not one of purpose , or purpose . The real counterpoint is pointedness - of - view . " In a fascinating storytelling maneuver , The One HandandThe Six Fingersshare a core mystery story , and divvy up the urgency of unscramble it , but they come at it from importantly diverging points - of - view , ensue in a gap in both characters ' understanding of the serial ' events that only proofreader of the ambitiousImage Comicsstorytelling event will be able to bridge .
The One Hand#2is uncommitted now from Image Comics . The Six Fingers#2will be uncommitted March 27 , 2024 from Image . The departure of the serial alternates every two week .
