Publication: Bullseye Press
To be honest, I’m biased. I’m biased for great and complex storytelling, like one would expect from writers of Inception, and I’m biased about Nitin Mishra. I love his writing.
Yagya, wasn’t my first read which contained his writing, but it’s the one I see most potential in. As the possibilities of expansion in different directions are still very high.
Yagya revolves around a few things. And instead of a being like a novice juggler, failing to keep up, it balances between them perfectly.
The first element of this beautiful act called Yagya is – Pragya Parashar, daughter of Prashant Parashar. She wants to be a comics writer, just like her father.
The second element is the shady side of Goa culture, the drug mafia. I found my favourite named character here – Satka Anna.
Coming to art. It’s as per standard and justifies the story. My only complain, or should I say favour, is English version of Issue #2 cover art, while I decided to stick with Hindi one.
There’s a club action sequence in Issue #2, which gets me excited everytime I go through it.
The line works on both the issues are beautiful, and the colouring makes it a treat to go through these comics at their given size.
The only minor error I found was, that in Hindi version, page 4 of Issue #1, comics label named writer as “Prateek Parashar” whom Pragya calls as “Papa”, while in Page 5 itself, it is revealed that her Dad’s name is “Prashant Parashar”.
Perhaps there’s something I’m missing, but that’s all when it comes to errors.Dialogues are fun and adjusted as per locality, which makes reading it as more pleasant.
Overall, a highly recommend read, especially if you’re into multilayered series.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for Issue #3.
- Vijayankesh Bariar