The last chapter and this one established the stinging barb as one of Scipio’s “things,” like the silence and impassivity, but his use of it would drop off somewhat after this. Partly, that’s because it’s a device that loses potency […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even if we hadn’t divvied this chapter up in a pattern of alternating four-page chunks, I would know this scene was one of mine, because Phil wouldn’t have someone go this hard against Bandit’s baseline character. We were agreed on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t have much to say about this transitional page, except I like how the silence in this page and the last have been used to put us right inside Byron’s mood. Phil has done some role-playing as a few […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Byron has two concepts of himself. The negative one is “like classic Bruce Banner but worse,” the positive one is “professional asskicker.” That positive concept of himself has already taken quite a beating from his berserker episodes, but not like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could have mentioned this yesterday, but I like how this recap started by giving Rachel a connection to Gravedust, after her connection to Frigg was already partly established. We have a Frigg button here, her epic smugface in panel […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
