Managed to find both comics from this week, plus one from last week this same store didn't have on the shelves when I swung by then. Better late than never.
Time to infiltrate the Russian base around the frozen kaiju. And it goes well! Sung is still being a smartass, and Glover is still trying to dump his guilt complex on Michelle, but their forged papers pass muster. The retinal scan gets T.G. in the security office. The others ride the rail car down into Prodathu's gut to get that gold.
Which is when Pavel springs the betrayal. T.G. takes three to the torso and judging by the blood, he wasn't wearing a Kevlar vest. Pavel cranks up the thermostat which wakes the beast up, and it's time for a panicked rail car ride back out of the creature's gut. I especially like the panel of Glover and Sung looking back and seeing that the rail line is becoming rapidly vertical and starting to twist as Prodathu gets moving.
So Pavel and these other idiots want Prodathu awake because they believe it will cleanse the earth of all the "garbage". Meaning people that aren't them. I suspect the creature does not distinguish one human from another and that Pavel will learn this firsthand. People are very bad at seeing the possible consequences of their actions. It'll always end up being someone else's problem.
Although in this case, I think they've forgotten that Prodathu was in battle with another mega-kaiju when it got frozen. One I think was buried under it, and is probably also going to wake up. We just glimpse its outline through the ice in the panel of Sung falling to his "death". I suspect he's not actually going to die, because I doubt Patrick will kill more than half the crew and with T.G. bleeding out and Glover not having died fucking up yet, someone else has to survive beside Michelle.
Anyway, the other kaiju will either save humanity, or lead to its total destruction as the two creatures rampage across the globe. Guess we'll see next month!
Stetson figures out it isn't Valkira possessing the memory of Finch's dead brother, but some dream demon with poor grammar instead. Feels like a bit of a cheat, but it does play into the sense that Stetson's been at this a while, while we're like Finch who has been thrown into the deep end. Meanwhile, someone showed up at her office and knocked out Ed, but seemingly didn't take anything. Stetson suspects Valkira possessed Finch's fiancee and they rush to the hospital where she works.
Stetson's rapidly losing her grip, looking sweaty and vaguely disoriented in some panels, and starts accusing Sadie of being possessed. Then Finch's cop partner shows up, because they found the murder he committed, plus Stetson's card. And here Finch is, with Stetson. Stetson tranqs the cop, and the fiancee. But Sadie's not possessed, so who is?
It's a credit to Smith that, when Stetson got out of Finch's dream and found Ed not dead, and nothing missing, that I thought I knew what was going on, but he got me to doubt it. Because Stetson was so sure she understood what was happening, and, like Finch, we just got swept along in her wake. I still don't understand exactly what Valkira is after. Is she planning to hook Ed into the dream machine, then walk her own body out through the interface into the physical world? It seems like she could have managed that anytime, just by hiding in someone's mind and guiding them to Stetson. Then just slip out the door while Stetson and her partner are busy running around in the person's dreams.
In the hospital, Stetson mentions see sees the nightmares she takes from other people everywhere she goes. Cardinali draws them in all through that scene. Some we've seen before, like the talking cockroach with the backwards ballcap, others we haven't. The memory of them lingers in her mind, even as she erases it from theirs. Which explains why the nightmares call her a "dream eater", while her business card says "dream healer".
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