Ended up not finding three of the books from last month I wanted. Six isn't bad, but I did want to see how Lead City wrapped up, and the start of She Bites. Maybe I'll have better luck at the end of this month. For today, a couple of mini-series that are wrapping up.
Seamus is in the middle of being interrogated by the cops about the judge's murder. While the cop's distracted getting a call about the IRA weapons buy, Brendan shows up and hauls Seamus out. Brendan explains he's Seamus' uncle, on his ma's side, and further explains Seamus' father was Chinese and the government just made him vanish one day. He explains this on the way to the weapons buy, where his partner is gunned down and he and Seamus part ways. I especially like how Brendan promised to always be there for Seamus, then had to separate from him three pages later because he just had to do this gun buy.
Seamus had the chance to touch the knife that killed Victoria, so he knows who actually did it and confronts them, convincing them to surrender. Then the cop explains the deal with Seamus' father, and that's pretty much it, other than the girl Seamus met has a father with the same gift, but in both eyes. I assume one, based on the overlying narration, he can see the future in at least one eye, or maybe both. Also, I didn't realize until this issue other characters are able to see Seamus' eye glowing when he does his "sight" thing. I knew they could tell his eyes didn't match, but I figured the glowing and lava lamp things were just a visual cue to us, but Brendan's partner comments on it, so apparently not.
Well, at least some of the questions I had about the sequence of events and motivations of the characters in the previous issue were answered. Mostly I was thrown off because I had the wrong people pegged as Victoria's killer. I don't know how I feel about the identity of the actual killer. It seems tied to this larger idea of not letting anger or frustration rule your life, which is a nice parallel to Brendan, who is determined to go on fighting the British forever, which I guess makes him an easy target for someone like Delporte.
But how does Seamus fit in? He doesn't seem motivated by anything like that. He wanted to find justice for the man whose hand he found. He wanted to help Victoria. He could have that resentment for what happened to his father, but he learns that so late we don't get any time to see him really process it.
Prodathu is up and moving, which is bad for humanity. So, maybe good for the world? Michelle thinks they could wake up the other kaiju to stop it, but they need to also have an escape plan and get the gold or there's still a hit on their head. Glover, as the last member of the crew standing, offers to handle that part. And remarkably, he doesn't fuck it up!
There's one panel as he tries to convince Michelle to trust him where the backdrop goes from white to black as he grips her shoulder. Then it goes back. Based on something he says later, it's like he momentarily switched roles with her, taking on the responsibility of making her feel like she can handle this, instead of the other way around.
Michelle beats the shit out of Dmitri (see below) and cuts off the anesthetic to Stateron. I have to wonder what kind of drugs you can give something that large, and in what amounts? Oh, and T.G.'s not dead, just wounded. They make their escape, although Glover almost falls to his death and they lose half the gold. Still enough to pay off everyone and make sure Sung's family got a cut. I honestly thought Stateron would have woken up on her own and Sung would be precariously perched on her head or something.
I like the designs on the kaijus. Broo makes them weird and very differently shaped, but maintains bilateral symmetry, which makes sense to me. These aren't some Resident Evil monsters half-assed whipped up in a lab. They're presumably the result of evolution as well, and even if Stateron has four limb, plus 6-8 tentacles, there's no reason she'd end up unbalanced.
Prodathu is stopped, they get out of Russia, T.G. offs the jackass behind all this, and Michelle shows up with an offer. She's got a seat on a new council that's going to implement rules into the heist economy once more, and she wants her guys to work with her. Which is not a development I expected. And they both turn her down, which sorta is? Like, I figured Glover had enough sense to know that's out of his league, but T.G. was harder to gauge since Patrick intentionally writes him as the man with a lengthy and mysterious past who takes an approach of looking for the right path. Maybe he would think helping establish less bloody chaos was a good thing.
Apparently not. Most of that discussion is colored in this twilight purple-pink, but then there are a few panels that are bright red backdrop. The three of them clinking glasses, Glover and T.G. absorbing her offer, Glover and Michelle hugging. It feels like any of them, taken individually, could be interpreted different ways. The glasses as a celebration and a future together, or a farewell, for example. Which makes me wonder if Michelle and Glover won't cross paths again. T.G.'s good-bye wasn't in the same colors, so I think it's meant to be unambiguous.
I don't know if this is it for this concept with Patrick, or if he's going to try and follow Michelle as a member of this council. I think this would be a good place to leave it. Marco made his big score and retired. He proved he wasn't a fuck-up and that was enough. Michelle proved she could handle bigger things, and she's moving up.
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