Sunday, May 05, 2019

Sunday Splash Page #64

"Jumping Between Dimensions Without a Parachute", in Anna Mercury #3, by Warren Ellis (writer), Facundo Percio (artist), Paul Duffield (color artist)

(It occurred to me during the week I should be mentioning you can click on the image to view it full-size. Maybe you'd twigged to that already, but I should say it at least once.)

I only bought this mini-series a month ago. The back issues weren't pricey as long as you weren't picky about which of the fifteen covers you got for a given issue.

There's a story about a bunch of pocket universes of various sizes existing around Earth, that can be traveled to and influenced by Earth. The British have naturally set themselves to trying to minimize any damage arising from that, and Anna is their top agent. Maybe their only field agent? We didn't see any others, and they kept throwing her into the mess with extremely little recovery time.

Ellis is hit-or-miss with me, and while I wouldn't classify this as a favorite, it isn't awful. The story moves quickly. Maybe the sheer number of single-page splashes helps with that. I think there were at least three in this one issue alone. Some of them are cool-looking, but it feels excessive. Anna's almost constantly dodging soldiers, blowing things up, or doing something ill-advised, broken up occasionally by her commander back on Earth doing an exposition dump for the new Prime Minister.

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