Got news last week we're going to have not one, but two hearings on a permit we issued. On back-to-back days. Because people really don't want us to have issued the permit. Which means I'm probably going to have to testify, twice. They aren't until the end of September, but the odds I can make it through both without hitting my limit and responding sarcastically are not good. Wonder if you can end up in contempt of court in an administrative hearing?
Here's some comics that, like me, are possibly near the end.
Miss der Abend and Dooley made their escape, but didn't reach her native soil. Instead, they crossed into some realm of dreams (or nightmares) Frankenstein's monster (because I guess it is him and not der Abend's racist, Bible-thumping grandad) and the creepy little doctor on their heels. Which is a mistake, because the things that lurk there nearly tear them apart. Dooley seems OK, and Constance is stronger than ever, able to command the elements somehow. Probably something there that bears further investigation.
Team-up of convenience commences and we learn a little more about the monster and the kid doctor before they happen upon the memory of the church where Constance was born. The spirits of her parents, or an illusion meant to resemble them, waiting inside. As well as the corpse of Dooley's horse, not inhabited by something that rules that realm.
Terry and Farrell do a pretty decent Bernie Wrightson on that monstrosity. It's easily the most horrifying, nastiest-looking thing in this series so far, Constance's comments about having seen Boss Tweed naked save a for a mask aside. The spirits, in contrast, are kind of bland. Basically just humans that are green and glowy. Not even indistinct at the edges or anything.
Anyway, the things want Constance and the others to stop the cult leader, who has captured whatever her father became and is trying to use it to ascend to a plane or position even greater than they are. Nice to know even other-dimensional monstrosities are as concerned about the social pecking order as high schoolers. Constance and the others make it back to the world, where the sky is the color of blood rather than raining it.
Herzog Jung? Do Seeley and Campbell expect me to do a bunch of reading on Jung to divine the significance of them choosing that name? Or should I be watching a bunch of Werner Herzog films? Either way, it feels like they're still introducing a lot of elements into this story. Dooley's diary landed in different hands again, but still hasn't really played a role. I wonder if there's going to be a second arc.
Again, the issue is split between two threads. There's a tiny little bit from Jenny's dad's diary, which introduces the woman who might be Jenny's mother. Mostly, the time is split between Jenny's present and three years earlier. In the present, Jenny is introduced as the new big monster fighter to the public, going to parties, getting drunk, and sleeping with that moron Chad.
Three years ago, we see Jenny screwing up a mission involving that Jagokai Death Cult because she was high on something called "Dragon's Ass". She cowboyed the situation, got people killed, got fired, spiraled into the wreck she was at the start of the previous mini-series. Robles colors the present day parts, Filho the 3 years ago parts.
Robles seems to be going with a softer set of hues. Lots of pastels and nothing too glaring. Which might jibe with my suspicion that this is all engineered by the Director's three telepaths. Chad seems unusually soft and deferential to Jenny, unlike his usual macho nonsense, and Jenny's scar over her eye is gone entirely. People are oddly willing to get along. Jenny says whatever she wants at her press conference, but somehow doesn't cause a disaster in the process. All the rough parts are being sanded over or eliminated.
Of course, Filho also gets to draw the part where Jenny is getting high, so maybe the more vivid colors tie to that. Or because this is a real screw-up she made that wrecked a lot of peoples' lives. The Director seems to be the daughter of the head of the cult, who got blowed up real good. Sure there's no lingering issues from that!
I'm almost positive there's going to be a third mini-series to this, because I don't see any way everything is getting resolved in one more issue. Jenny doesn't even seem to know she needs to watch out for the Director yet. Not sure how I feel about that. If this was going to be a 12-issue thing, just solicit it as a damn 12-issue thing. You tell me four issues, I kind of expect there will be a conclusion after 4 issues.
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