The snow last week was not considerate. It waited until the long weekend was over and I had to go to work. I ended up taking Wednesday off just because the roads were getting worse all day Tuesday and I did not feel like messing with that.
And now it's 60 degrees outside. February, everybody!
Laura survived the explosion, though it blew the flesh off her hands and part of her face. Not sure how she's lifting and manipulating her hands given there's no muscle of circulatory system visible, but whatever. Bomb's been taken to a hospital, under O*N*E supervision, but Laura, still healing, sneaks in with Elektra to speak to him.
They get just enough information to track down the guy that sent the kid off to explode, but by the time they find him, he's holding a dead man's switch and threatening to blow up half a block. I'm not clear on if he wants them to let him go, or if he's just planning to go suicide bomber. Either way, Elektra keeps him from releasing the switch, Laura stabs him, he's arrested, the heroes go their separate ways. Then Bucky (looking a lot like Sebastian Stan) shows up at Laura's apartment. Sorry, I'm not calling him "The Revolution" unless he shows up with Prince (who hopefully is still alive in the Marvel Universe.)
This book is not working for me. It feels like it's just going through the motions. If Laura is so concerned about Bomb, why does she quietly accept he's been taken somewhere by O*N*E when she returns to the hospital? Shouldn't she be rushing recklessly after him, to rescue him from being locked up somewhere after he was abducted and used to stage a terrorist attack? That was how she handled the missing kid in issue 1, and everything else so far. If the point is she's trying to exercise patience, because rushing in like a lunatic hasn't worked very well, give us something in the writing that reflects that character beat. Because as it's presented, Laura just decided, "eh, good enough," and went home to eat Chinese takeout.
For that matter, why is Esger drawn looking regretful as he sends Bomb off to explode on page 1, but by the end of the issue he's yelling about how he was the only true believer in his group, and he's willing to die to kill two mutants (one of whom isn't a mutant, because it's Elektra?) He goes from, 'Now, I know you don't wanna. . .' to 'Mutants will be wiped from the earth!' in the span of 15 pages.
Hell, why does Bomb go along with the plan at all? Esger takes the power dampening collar off and just sends him into the crowd by himself. Even if Bomb can't control his power so an explosion was inevitable, and I don't know if that's the case, no one made him walk into the protest. There's no indication he thought, "well, if I got to explode, I might as well kill this particular bunch of assholes." He seemingly just did it because the plot demanded it.
Maybe this is all something Schultz intends to loop back to later. I'm half convinced the lady in the first issue that runs the sanctuary for mutants is actually the front for, essentially, a trap. Mutants come in expecting safety and get sold off to whoever has a need. (Not unlike how Genosha was presented in the '90s cartoon.) But that's me guessing, because there's, at best, vague hints in the book so far. And that's something that might play out. Eventually. At some point. In the here and now, there's really nothing in the comic - writing or art - that makes me feel like I've gotta know what happens next.
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