Book Review: Velvet vol #3

Book: Velvet volume #3: The Man Who Stole The World (issues #11-15) by Ed Brubaker with illustrations by Steve Epting, color by Elizabeth Breitweiser and letters by Chris Eliopoulos

Cover Art by Steve Epting and Elizabeth Breitweiser

Edition: Trade Paperback

Description:

The strands of the mystery finally bring Velvet back home to the US, and to Washington DC, for the explosive finale to the first big Velvet story arc.



Rating: 5 stars

Review:

I finally got around to reading and reviewing the third and final volume of Velvet. And it was worth the wait because this was a such a good thrilling story. It's absolutely well-written and the artwork truly compliments the story. In this final volume which continues to be set in the 1970s, picks up where the last one left off. From the first page on, you get a mystery that unfolds as spy Velvet Templeton is trying to uncover the truth behind several murders and hopefully clear her name after she was framed. With agent Colt still trying to track her down, her window of opportunity is getting smaller and smaller and not to mention figure out who she can trust. She left Europe and made her way back to the United States in a rather clever way that she hoped would lead her to who's targeting her.

Velvet had a plan but with each piece of new information she was acquiring by looking into this tangled web of a deadly intrigue the more questions she had. As the web of conspiracies was starting to unravel, the truth was slowly becoming easier to see but that didn't make her plan any easy to pull off. And just when she found a key witness, Velvet somehow stumbled into a deadly trap but even the trap lead to more questions.

This was such a good story, my only complaint about this final volume is that I wish it was longer because I wanted more. At least Velvet was able to find all the answers to her questions. For this review, I was trying to keep it short because there are a lot of twists and turns along with a political element in this last five issues, that I don't want to accidentally spoil anything. Velvet is a fascinating character and throughout all three volumes or 15 issues, you see how smart and self-aware she is yet that didn't stop her from making mistakes. She is also someone with integrity who stuck with her goal of pursuing the truth. This is a gritty comic book series that gives you a peek into Velvet's world of espionage and how quickly things can go wrong.

I'm really happy I found the Velvet comic book series which I finally finished reading. I read the first two volumes 10 years ago but you know what, it's never too late to finish reading a book series.