I had a nice visit with my friend in Florida, but the drive down there and back was hell. 14 hours one way. New record for the longest drive I've done solo in one go. I definitely ran out of patience on the drive back with about three hours to go. Also, I've never seen as much lightning as I did in Florida, as though the universe itself was telling me to stay away.
Spalding was building a gate for Blackheart, but Hellstrom tricked/convinced him to build a different kind of gate, one that would restore a person to their true form if they passed through it. So if, a half-demon trapped in a stuffed rabbit went through, he'd be restored to his pentagram-tattooed chest self.
Blackheart attacked Spalding for double-dealing, but Patsy kicked his ass by tapping into. . .something. What Daimon considers to be her true self, aka the lady on the cover. Who emerges after he chucks her through the gate while she's in a trance Sleepwalker put in her to try and figure out what the crap was going on. Also, Sleepwalker seemingly being able to stand toe-to-toe with Blackheart but getting one-shotted by Hellstrom reeks of bullshit. Or perhaps that's just sulfur.
And, in the flashbacks to Patsy's high school years, we see Chet dealt with being expelled by yelling at Patsy for being overruled by her mother, getting drunk, killing one of Buzz' friends with a broken beer bottle, and crashing his car into a tree. Also, Cantwell's still playing coy about who killed Spalding, other than it doesn't seem to be Blackheart.
So what's the point of all this? Patsy has always been trapped by the whims of people who thought they knew what was best for her, or who she really was? Her mother, Hellstrom, even this Spalding (god what a stupid name), who cast a spell to muddle Patsy's telepathy because he didn't want her to know what he was. Or is it that she's actually always been a monster under the skin and it's a convenient excuse to blame it on others, as characters in this mini-series have suggested?
It isn't just Hellstrom, who is still parroting that line about Patsy walking out of Hell, which, no, is still not accurate. Hellstrom tricked Hawkeye into doing it once, and the second time, Mephisto couldn't spare the energy to fight her, but she knew she'd be back there some day. Now, it could be this is just Hellstrom gaslighting her, but Cantwell also writes Hellstrom saying, 'To me, my Hellcat,' so it's entirely possible he's just a lousy writer.
The demon-Cat design is underwhelming to say the least, but Lins manages to make a stuffed rabbit look ominous, so credit for that. The flashback pages and the ones where people are just calmly chatting are all done with nice, straight rectangular panels. Once we start delving into Patsy's memories or anything with Sleepwalker, they start to tilt or grow irregular. A couple of panels in her memory wave and flutter like a sail as she falls into or out of the dream.
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