February 8, 2017
This one was thick. Really dense. And not as much fun as it has been lately. In fact, it tried to cram SO much into it - I am not certain that I have followed along with nearly everything the comic has tried to put into the story. I liked that the story decided to focus back on the Plasm world - even if I don't like it more. And bringing it back by the end back over into the Splatterball dome was a way to connect back to everything inside of the world's story, as well. By the end, I liked that the characters' emotions were full force - but strange to see so much emotion for the living ball - and that was what forced them over the edge. Did really no members of either team have any level of emotion other than die on the field? The ball slowed her down? And Lorca's overwhelming NO - although easily can be changed next issue - Sueraceen immediately interprets that as treason and pulls out her spiked crook to immediately disembowel him there?
I guess that I am also having some difficulty that this band of five people could still have the innate ability to keep fighting through all of these traumas - and be so naive as to fall under the spell of nearly every nasty guy - Sue, and the highlord, too. But when they fall into a conflict, they almost immediately dispose of it. They destroyed every opponent on the Splatterball field in about two panels. This issue has really been a disappointment.
I kept walking away from the comic. Usually that means my disappointment in the pages - and it was pretty evident in this issue. Here it wasn't so much in the poor nature of the story - it was good. But in the sheer volume of information that the story tried to force into its pages. It started at the beginning by doffing its cap to my only real complaint from last issue - that the five were able to so soundly defeat the travelers. But after then, it has to describe so much on nearly every page that it gets lost in much of the shuffle of inofmration and location. After about the third pages it's chock full of dialogue - and ontroduces new characters by the wheelbarrow - each bringing even more information about the world, the walls, their transition, clothes, etc. One of the only pages not so full of information was the Sue inside her apartment one. No, that one needed to focus on an all too specific silhouette of her. Really? That level of detail is necessary. Then we switch over to a page with overt levels of necessary covers? Too much on this, Lapham. Please get back to better stories next issue.
I guess that I am also having some difficulty that this band of five people could still have the innate ability to keep fighting through all of these traumas - and be so naive as to fall under the spell of nearly every nasty guy - Sue, and the highlord, too. But when they fall into a conflict, they almost immediately dispose of it. They destroyed every opponent on the Splatterball field in about two panels. This issue has really been a disappointment.
I kept walking away from the comic. Usually that means my disappointment in the pages - and it was pretty evident in this issue. Here it wasn't so much in the poor nature of the story - it was good. But in the sheer volume of information that the story tried to force into its pages. It started at the beginning by doffing its cap to my only real complaint from last issue - that the five were able to so soundly defeat the travelers. But after then, it has to describe so much on nearly every page that it gets lost in much of the shuffle of inofmration and location. After about the third pages it's chock full of dialogue - and ontroduces new characters by the wheelbarrow - each bringing even more information about the world, the walls, their transition, clothes, etc. One of the only pages not so full of information was the Sue inside her apartment one. No, that one needed to focus on an all too specific silhouette of her. Really? That level of detail is necessary. Then we switch over to a page with overt levels of necessary covers? Too much on this, Lapham. Please get back to better stories next issue.