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So.
I've been rereading this *very* slowly today, savouring each page and each text piece - I love the text pieces, and have foolishly begun loading up my iPod with music Fraction mentions (New Pornographers in particular) and it's sumptuously influencing some writing I've been doing.
Some of the plotting, in particular early on, is a bit sloppy. I'm not sure if it's an issue of super-compression or an issue of dimension-hopping messing things about, but things do come across as a bit awkard at first. I'm still not exactly sure whether I'm supposed to read X.S.M. as a subsidiary of W.A.S.T.E. or another, rival spy bad guy organization. It gets a bit more fluid as the stories progress, though, with the occasional confusion.
The orgone? Check. Listless girlbots left without their fuck-generators.
Best bits? Hands down, #4's revelation that Sabine Seychelle and his big old manservant are essentially grown up Jonny Quest & Hadji, who growed-up real wrong. Love that. And, as stated earlier upthread, Coldheart Island. That's really where the series starts to click for me and become *meaningful*.
Do we know when #7 comes out? I find Image's previews a bit hard to track down and deal with and Fraction doesn't seem to mention upcoming issues on his bloggedy-blog very much like. |
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