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Meludreen said (inna Klarion thread): I think Klarion 3 works perfectly in the remit of 7 Soldiers. Part of the function of these books aside from telling the one big story between them all is in renovating the characters and concepts for future use. Because of this, an integral part of each mini has to be used for properly establishing a feel for each character and what their books are there to say. This issue of Klarion is doing exactly that.
Moved this over here because I think it significant for all four series so far. I think, while I can get behind that as the intention of 7S, I think in the end it almost begs another issue for each mini just to give a bit more space so that the "overarching" elements don't conflict too terribly with the "character bible" aspect. Things happen much too quickly in, say, Zatanna for their own good, and while realistically you could say that Zee conjuring Gwydion has nothing to do with the Sheeda threat, because of the space contained in the series it has to be connected - if we were given another issue or two, you could get away with that being unrelated, or a red herring.
Guardian does a better job of that, we've so far had one adventure intimately connected to the Sheeda (the foundation stone and the subway pirates) and the Century Hollow trip that seems to have nothing to do with anything - I liked it, but I think it means we need a whole other issue added to the mini to balance it out properly. We only get one more issue to prepare Jake for 7S-1.
Klarion and Shining Knight, so far, do the best job of furthering the plot, but seem to do it for the other books - the Erdel Gate, the Puritan kiddie-snatchers, the Horigal bit, and Gloriana Tenebrae - it feels like it's too badly balanced in favour of the Sheeda plot without sufficiently mapping out their own, independent territory. Those books are the "mystery string" holding it all together, the one Ali Ka-Zoom talks about in Z3. For Knight it works, because Ystin gets his "Rogue's Gallery," and at the same time it connects to the other books, even in spite of the muddy artwork. Klarion seems to fill in background details for the other titles, but lacks a forward thrust - yes, he's going back down to save Limbo Town, but has he been out in the open world of Blue Rafters long enough for that return to be as significant? |
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