Fly, The - Outbreak #3

Fly, The - Outbreak #3
Released by: IDW Publishing
Released on: May 20th, 2015.
Written By: Brandon Seifert
Illustrated by: menton3
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When we last left off with Doctor Martin Brundle, things were not good. He was lucky enough to get a sexy cam show from his foxy wife but from there, it all went downhill. The 'infection' was starting to spread throughout the facility outside of New York City where he was contained, the obvious example being a certain red-headed female getting her rocks off with the guards and spreading around those nasty fly genes.

When this third issue opens, Martin is understandably feeling some guilt over what is happening. Noe wakes him from his nightmare, and the medication that she's on now seems to have calmed down the uncontrollable sexual impulses she showed in the last issue. Martin heads to the men's room to do what he needs to do and finds a mutated man hiding in the stall - Ross.

From here we bounce around a bit. Martin tries to sort out what happened and how while Noe does what she can to assist him, like a good assistant should. He tells Noe what he misses about the wife he's essentially kicked out of his life until he gets this mess sorted out and then we see how he's going about trying to do just that. Martin suggests taking Ross and the others off of the medication that is controlling them so they'll be blissfully unaware of what's wrong. Martin has a bit of a moral conundrum to deal with here. He knows what he's responsible for, and he knows the only way to really cure the infected is to pass the infection on to another living person, but a talk with Noelani has an effect on him. He comes up with an idea, one that might work, but those military doctor guys in the masks aren't really liking his plan. And on top of that? Their 'patients' are starting to evolve into what they think will be the final form of their mutation.

As the 'hatching' takes place, Martin falls into a bottle. Then the light go off, and the door to the ward opens up…

Brandon Seifert's continuation of the story that began in the David Cronenberg directed The Fly and continued in its sequel remains an interesting read. This time around there's some interesting underlying discussion about the pros and cons of science and about how the anti-science movement would probably latch onto Brundle's work as an admittedly valid reason to reject scientific advancements, but this is contrasted with Bruncle's flaws as a scientist and because of this the issue has some interesting political overtones. It's never preachy, nor is it ever heavy handed, but it is a bit more thought provoking in that regard than you might expect it to be.

The story continues to be written at an adult level and the artwork from menton3 reflects that. This is a dark story and as such, it's visually represented by some appropriately dark artwork. Things are definitely subject to a lot of digital manipulation here but it works well and it's never really at the sacrifice of detail. Often times the backgrounds are a bit more abstract than the foregrounds but it's all part of menton3's style. It works.

This one ends on a decent cliffhanger, things should definitely ramp up here and bring us to the conclusion of the storyline quite briskly. The stage is set… we'll see where it goes, obviously, but this continues to be a very worthy addition to the mythos of 'The Fly.'