We have seen many stories of thieves over the years and of all kinds, even carried out by women. Detailed plans that seem infallible lead to Panini comics to bring us the series The Banks from the independent label TKO Studios.
The art of subtracting the alien
Given the audiences and ticket offices, there is no doubt that the robbery genre attracts quite a public. Not because they are criminals, but rather because of their attitude of white-collar thieves who usually have some morally respectable motivation, either for acting against other more evil, for subtracting sums that they distribute among the most needy or because they are moved by some powerful feeling, as can be. be friendship, love or revenge. It would be very different to position yourself before uncouth people who only seek to accumulate wealth, who inflict pain for free or so cruel as to harm the weakest. It is in those cases when the viewer takes a stand for the forces of public order, wants the arrest of the criminal regardless of the means used for that purpose.
The Banks It has both, the family that includes three generations of empowered women who have dedicated themselves to making a living from what was stolen doing as little damage as possible and at the same time the group of unscrupulous criminals who leave a trail of blood wherever they pass. A story that evolves little by little, dropping layers like an onion until it reaches its heart, where everything is clearer and defines who is who, their work and subordination to a being that is at the top of the pedestal of your organization. Taking him down will not be easy but the Banks women are not characterized by being cowards, even if they are prudent. The price they can pay is very high.
Candidate product for the audiovisual medium
This miniseries, as happened before with The Kitchen, also the work of the American cartoonist Ming Doyle, has sold its rights to be brought to the big screen. At the moment there are hardly any statements in this regard made by the screenwriter herself, Roxane Gay. The woven plot is an attractive proposal that unfolds a series of sentimental relationships that range from a marriage between lesbians to an interracial union, situations that are becoming more and more normal in any medium and are not avoided or become an exception. They are treated as something everyday, which can be affected by the order of priorities of each character, like life itself.
Ming Doyle’s drawing is very sober and focused on the protagonists, with little detailed backgrounds and with a less dark result than in The Kitchen. It does not end up looking attractive but it works correctly, if we are not very demanding with facial expressions. It is undoubtedly the weakest section of the work. The color palette is from the ubiquitous Jordi Bellaire, thus completing a complete shortlist of women in charge of this comic, something that we also regularly see in independent publications. This set brings a lot of strength to the three protagonists, women of arms who do not need a male figure to shine with their own light.
The Banks is not one of the best collections that have come to us from the TKO Studios publishing house, but if you like the genre, this is an entertaining story, well spun, that increases in intensity as elements are added and the depth is discovered of the criminal organization against which Clara, Cora and Celia are going to focus their efforts to settle the pending accounts.