All right, we got the rest of the comics from October to go through, starting with two issues of one mini-series. I cannot figure out Scout Comics' publishing schedule. One big goes MIA for two months, while this one ships twice in three weeks.
Rosi continues the approach he's maintained throughout of skipping back-and-forth between the past (Max and Stella's attempt to escape Ford) and present (Max's attempt to rescue Stella from Ford). In the past, Max sneaks into a shopping mall the locusts have turned into some sort of nest in search of milk to make pancakes with. And probably some other food, too. This narrowly works out, except for the pregnant lady Max sees suspended in the goop and slowly mutating. Nieto gives us a panel where you can see the fetus is already a locust which, yeah, I didn't need to see that.
At least Stella enjoyed the pancakes, but Ford and his guys track them down and retake Stella. This establishes Ford and his men are already showing signs of changing, as Nieto draws most of them at various stages of metamorphosis. Ford, for example, has developed a mess of eyes where his right eye used to be. Other guys are beginning to develop mandibles. It seems weird this process could have begun a year ago, yet Ford still looks mostly human in the scenes in the present.
In the present, it turns out the people who captured Max are the people who were working with the scientists he saw get killed in the past. The fact he's carrying the scientist's laptop doesn't make them like Max very much. Nor are they inclined to help him rescue Stella. They're more interested in how the young woman Max rescued/captured could help them infiltrate Ford's base, presumably to kill him. This may be a moot point, as the missiles Ford launched into NYC have started fires which are driving the locusts out.
That seems like a lot left to resolve with only one issue, but there shouldn't be any more need for flashbacks at this point. We've seen how Max lost Stella, and enough of their interactions (and enough of Ford) to understand why Max wants to try and get her back. Although I wonder if Rosi isn't writing Stella as too sweet and cheerful. Feel like a kid would complain about all the walking at some point, but maybe the point is life with Ford was so awful, even tromping through the ruins of civilization is a major improvement. Ford has guns and made the men believe they're the chosen, he didn't have to be kind to anyone else, like kids. Fingers crossed he dies horribly!
Fingers crossed we can even see it if he does. Nieto's coloring is just so dark and murky. I thought the first issue lightened up, but everything in this is colored like we're seeing through the haze from a distant forest fire or something.
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