I finished Trigun today on my anime re-watch project. I forgot how exhausting all Vash's hemming and hawing about not shooting Legato gets. He wants to die, just do it already!
Sorry, reflex. Tomorrow is Trigun: Badlands Rumble, and that's the end of it, minus the first half of a series I bought a few weeks ago. But I haven't watched Ghost Hound yet, so it's not a re-watch.
Laura, X-Infinite and X-92 (the portal-making kid) are following the guys who took everyone else, courtesy of a trail of blood Gabby is leaving for them. It's kind of funny that she's apparently so used to having a healing factor that she didn't consider that it's a bad thing if she just keeps bleeding indefinitely.
Although that raises a question. They all got stuck with collars that neutralize their powers, meaning no healing factor, which is what Gabby's counting on for the bleeding. So does that mean the collar has entirely blocked her ability to heal, rather than simply knocking it down to a "normal" level? Because I sure don't have a healing factor like a Wolverine, but any cuts or scrapes I get do stop bleeding eventually.
Laura and X-Infinite get inside the facility, courtesy of X-92's portals and start looking around. But Infinite's more interested in reprogramming those knockoff X-23-bots to kill all the staff of the facility, so he can have it for himself. And then having them overwhelm Laura, so he can have access to all of her blood he wants. Well, he seemed pretty suspect, but I did not see that level of backstabbing coming.
Laura also has a 3-page fight with the weird crab/centipede lady, who we're told has part of the face of Kimura, the woman who used to torture Laura when she was a kid (and who I thought Laura drowned in Tom Taylor's All-New Wolverine.) Granted, all that's organic is her face and half her hair, so there wasn't much to go on, but I would not have figured that to be Kimura in a million years.
Houser tends to script the fights, or Renna's drawing them, to emphasize Laura's speed. Lots of short, broad panels that show the distance she covers, lots of flips and dodges and acrobatics. She's definitely not just charging into the fights and tanking hits (and then complaining about how much healing hurts) like she was in her previous ongoing.
Houser switches the caption boxes between Laura and a mystery person through the issue. Laura's focused mostly on what she can scent, or who she's fighting at that moment. The mystery person talks about paths and outcomes, and reveals themselves at the end of the issue as the time-traveler Laura saw die in issue 1. So I guess she went forward to this point, then back to that point later.
2 comments:
At first glance it looked like Laura was missing her head on that cover; the highlight halo on her hair looked like an empty jacket collar.
I didn't have that reaction, maybe the hair framed the face in such a way I noticed it right off, but my first thought was it was Gabby rather than Laura and the artist fucked up the number of claws. Like this issue was actually going to be Gabby getting loose and going nuts on the Facility staff while Laura tracks them down.
I thought the face looked too rounded or smooth, as I apparently associate Laura being drawn with more of a vertical angle for the jawline running to the chin. Triangular, I guess. Then I noticed she was also missing the scars on her face and realized it was supposed to be Laura.
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