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Somewhere way back in the earlier pages of this thread, there was some comment like ‘boy, I’m glad you’re not writing this comic’ from one poster to another (who to who is irrelevant)… but given how many people posting here appear to be intent on telling us aspects of the story which don’t actually appear to be on the pages that have actually seen print, and telling us what Grant is doing here, I think that there’s a lot of writing going on here. Which may prove to be inaccurate given that we’ve got a way to go with this story yet.
As for the issue, now I’ve read it, I feel it was … all right. Exciting to have so much happening all in one issue, but it all felt a bit clumsy and rushed, despite the art being more clear than the last few issues. The dialogue seemed a bit off to me, as someone else observed, but maybe that’s because Xorn’s speech patterns seemed more like Magneto’s… as for the face behind the mask : an interesting twist, but unlike the Caulder revelation in Doom Patrol or the realisation of who the man under the tree talking to Maxine was in Animal Man, it was far from ‘of course!’ accompanied by a forehead-slap. More like the end of Tim Burton’s version of Planet of the Apes than the end of the original version – ‘what the … huh ? How’s that gonna be explained ?’ etc.
Assuming, of course, we are going to have some explanation – I’ll be rather disappointed if a lot of this doesn’t get explained, though it might be a bit of a burdensome issue if we have Maggy gloating and saying ‘ah, Charles, it was easy to make the bird fly and look reborn’, and so on to cover all the queries people have raised in this thread and elsewhere.
Interesting issue, and I’ll be keen to see how the story proceeds, and what’s explained and what isn’t. And yes, I DO need it explained in the comic, as I’m paying for the writer’s story, not to have holes in it plugged by other people. Reminds me on a certain level of the old Bill Hicks gag about fundamentalists saying “ ‘I think what God MEANT to say was…’ - I’ve never been that confident.”
Still, as Twig pointed out, it’s stirred up a lot of interest, and doing that on the basis of the story is pretty nifty when you consider U-Decide and the other less seemly ways of getting attention. |
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