3 weeks has actually produced a decent number of comics to review. 8 altogether, which doesn't count the third issue of The Rush, which I wasn't able to find. And anywhere from 3 to 6 more coming out this week. I can't tell if Diamond's got their website crap sorted to where I can trust what's listed under New Releases. It's weird, having so many comics after the recent lean years.
Turtleneck Jones shooting himself in the head releases some cheerful robot named Natas, who kills almost all the guys threatening Dio with a pair of guns named "Chucky" and "Bride of Chucky." Mahfood does the gunfight in black and white, before bringing the colors back in the next scene. Oh, and shooting himself in the head also killed Turtleneck Jones, but he'll be back in three days. Just like Jesus! Natas and Dio meet a little chickenbot who gives her a map to dream jump to the place she needs to recover what she needs of Billy, then self-destructs. The chickenbot also claims the person Dio was supposed to meet was a spy, but they can trust him. Sure, seems legit.
In other news, Gordi didn't die, thanks to Becsu of the Azarian Tribe, which is sister to the Grrl Scouts Army. And Mistress Tako's still trying to help the Teeth escape the place where it's trapped. Dio also gives us another glimpse of her and Billy, this time how they started dating. It involves a clay dick, dream jumps, and wet t-shirts. I started laughing as I finished that sentence.
This comic is just bizarre. Mahfood's all over the damn place with the story. The color schemes he use vary from one scene to the next. Gordi and Becsu are a similar shade of blue-green set against black and yellow backdrops. Natas and Dio's scenes use more sky-blue contrasted against white. Tako and the Teeth are in black and white, except for Tako's red cloak, and those pages are just filled with swirling lines and circles and weird floating eyes. It's kind of like a Ditko Doctor Strange image, except there's more emphasis on it being wild and less on clarity. I don't think this is a comic that's necessarily big on clarity, though.
OK, the sword Zero stole a piece of was forged long ago during a special alignment. The blacksmith was then killed by shadowy robed types, under the usual horseshit about it being powerful and for everyone's own good. Anyway, the sword actually unlocks access to the "lunar room", and if he can get there, he becomes the most powerful mage alive. Easily able to break the curse. If he lives long enough, which could be dicey. His brother's already tracked down Cynthia, although he only sent humans to fight her, which didn't end well for those dopes. And her old partner Angie, along with Angie's new partner, heard about Cynthia being able to transform (while shaking down people for protection money, essentially), and new guy spilled to their boss. Just not soon enough, so she burned him alive.
Lovely people. This is going to be one of those stories where everyone sucks, isn't it? This Gloria's a crime boss, and clearly the short-tempered, violent sort. Angie's clearly willing to murder or intimidate people who pay up, just for a little muttering. Cynthia used to work with her, so she probably was the same. Zach's brother seems like a jerk, from the brief glimpses we got of him, and Zero doesn't seem like a good choice for, 'the most powerful mage alive,' as he put it. I don't know why. He just seems untrustworthy. Maybe because he doesn't have much on his side, so he's playing sneaky to give himself a chance.
Hard to know who to root for here. I figure Lore will eventually reveal why Cynthia was "bound" by Gloria, and it'll probably be something like refusing to disembowel the child of someone who couldn't pay up. Which, better than her going along with that, certainly. And we might find out Zero was always the unloved child, the Zuko to his brother's Azula, and that's left him struggling for any self-respect. At this point we don't really know enough about either of them to say. Cynthia's grumpy and impatient, Zero's not great with people.
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