Just one thing before beginning: I agree with Akonkind and ach202577, Sparrow is “smoking hot”, and “ her feisty temper, wild spirit, sleek design, sexy curves, and continued abysmal luck makes her infinitely enjoyable to read”, but there is another character trait that defines her: she is a huge jerk.
I mean, this was Amy’s dream / nightmare / hallucination, but even here, Sparrow is mean and rude. Amy only confused her with another person, why the remark of “freak”?
And then, let me talk you about Amy’s death. The first three pages of this issue were good setting out Amy’s death, but then we have page 804 to 812 showing us Amy waking up a very vivid, weird dream. Maybe it could have been better to show those first? Amy get’s dead in the last issue and the first scene we see is her awakening. I’m not complaining or anything like that, just saying.
Because you see, page 804 to 812 is the most interesting, if sadistic, thing to happen to Amy: She returns to her old life, and finds that there is no measure to the incredible world he has left behind. I feel that in a way, she is tortured even more for the futility of her old life than for all the terrible things she endured before. This reminds me of a old comic of Fantastic Four, where Doctor Doom manages to trap all the fantastic four and then makes them dream a life controlled by him… and very miserable.
A lot of people complain that all of the villains put the hero in a overdeveloped spectacular death trap, giving the hero the chance to escape, instead of just shoot him (like Dr. Evil show us), but in the case of the comic, Doctor Doom don’t want the fantastic four dead, he want them suffer knowing that they are trapped forever. I think that this situation, Amy going back to her boring life, and all the distress she gets of this situation, is more interesting for me that the torture Shadrac inflicts in Amy.
I told you this because it’s obvious that this is not the real Shadrac: He has not that good sense of humor! Why, he said “How clumsy, you spilled my drink”. I was disappointed he did not say: “No tip for you”. It was obvious that there was another man behind the man.
And then, we see him, or her, Hecate. Why, she ever has a… err… TV soul thing? Where she can control Amy’s perception of reality? I don’t know, but I know that I want to see more of this new character and her… strange… villainous dress choice.
Thank you for another great issue, I hope to see more of Talia next time… in his uniform, of course!
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