Nathan heads to a local pub for a beer, hoping to dig further into the character he’s writing. Nathan is not quite bought into the idea of being a superhero while Marshall is fully in and quickly starts establishing a social media presence for the newly-dubbed Radiant Black. They have a less-than-quiet talk about what to name Nathan’s superhero persona. Nathan meets his friend, Marshall, working the register at a video store (those are still around?). The harder he tries to buckle down, the less progress he makes. Inevitably, Nathan finds himself looking at cat memes. When he tries to get in a rhythm in his living room, his mother interrupts (yes, writers hate that), so he decides to move to his room. Nathan Burnett can’t get seem to get going on his short story about a bank robber taking an opportunity to start life afresh. There’s simply nothing here to capture your attention.
The excessive use of muted color palettes robs what little story there is of pop or strong visual interest. To be fair, this issue does capture the struggle of what it feels like to have writer’s block, but that’s all it does. The most exciting aspect of this issue is the fight scene on the cover, and that scene isn’t in the book. When his latest short story goes nowhere, he looks for inspiration wherever he can. In RADIANT BLACK #3, available from Image Comics on April 21st, 2021, Nathan Burnett is your average writer with writer’s block… and he’s a burgeoning superhero.
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