Comic Relief
My Current Pull List:
-Angel: After the Fall
-Buffy: Season Eight (TBPs only)
-Criminal
-Dead, She Said
-Spike: After the Fall
-Supernatural: Rising Son
-Tek Jensen
-Twelve
The Comment Trail asked about Locke and Key (Hey EssBee!), so since I would have done that one soon anyway, we'll bump it up.
The main think about Locke and Key was: it didn't finish. I was getting annoyed in the middle issues because they read as nothing happens filler. Oh, they weren't awful, but the plot didn't move one bit, and I was thinking they'll have to rush to wrap this up; they only have six issues. It never occurred to me that they had a brilliant alternative: don't finish anything!
*Nothing* is resolved over six issues, so if you're going for the trade, do remember it's a fragment; there is no story here. It's just the setup, if that.
That's the bad bit. Now, for the rest. If you put aside *that* glaring frustration, what we actually get is good. Not quite living up to its premise, but not bad. If it was an open series, I would have kept going, for a bit. As it is, I feel ripped off and unlikely to join in for the supposed sequel arc. Which reads more like a dirty trick. Grrr. Still, for the good: the art was beautiful. A distinctive style which looked fresh and simple, which meant it was, no doubt, painstaking and time-chewing. There were shot of waves on water that were just flippin gorgeous.
Note: I also had a huge amount of trouble getting Locke and Key. It was never in on time and seemed perpetually on backorder. While it was on my pull months ahead of release, I got some issues as second printing for gosh sake! Now, maybe demand was too high, or my store was just trying to give me an ulcer, but the distribution headache is another reason I'm leery to take a chance on another arc. That, and I just don't expect the story to even come to *some* wrap up there.
-Angel: After the Fall
-Buffy: Season Eight (TBPs only)
-Criminal
-Dead, She Said
-Spike: After the Fall
-Supernatural: Rising Son
-Tek Jensen
-Twelve
The Comment Trail asked about Locke and Key (Hey EssBee!), so since I would have done that one soon anyway, we'll bump it up.
The main think about Locke and Key was: it didn't finish. I was getting annoyed in the middle issues because they read as nothing happens filler. Oh, they weren't awful, but the plot didn't move one bit, and I was thinking they'll have to rush to wrap this up; they only have six issues. It never occurred to me that they had a brilliant alternative: don't finish anything!
*Nothing* is resolved over six issues, so if you're going for the trade, do remember it's a fragment; there is no story here. It's just the setup, if that.
That's the bad bit. Now, for the rest. If you put aside *that* glaring frustration, what we actually get is good. Not quite living up to its premise, but not bad. If it was an open series, I would have kept going, for a bit. As it is, I feel ripped off and unlikely to join in for the supposed sequel arc. Which reads more like a dirty trick. Grrr. Still, for the good: the art was beautiful. A distinctive style which looked fresh and simple, which meant it was, no doubt, painstaking and time-chewing. There were shot of waves on water that were just flippin gorgeous.
Note: I also had a huge amount of trouble getting Locke and Key. It was never in on time and seemed perpetually on backorder. While it was on my pull months ahead of release, I got some issues as second printing for gosh sake! Now, maybe demand was too high, or my store was just trying to give me an ulcer, but the distribution headache is another reason I'm leery to take a chance on another arc. That, and I just don't expect the story to even come to *some* wrap up there.
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