Based on the Youtube ads, I think one of the guys running for governor in Iowa is actually from Kansas, and still lives there most of the time. Which really ought to be disqualifying. Run for office in your own state, shitheel! But apparently he was, prior to his, involved in politics in Montana. So the hierarchy of desirable political offices apparently goes, from best to worst, Kansas-Montana-Iowa.
The comics didn't arrive until Monday, so I didn't have time to prep either of the review posts before going on a long 3-day inspection trip. So I'm trying to write this Thursday, two hours after I got home. Let's see how that goes.
The entire issue takes place in and around Zina's house, after she returns home from killing her former bosses. Except it's not Zina's home any longer, because her older brother, Cyril, sold the house under some bullshit eminent domain claim to the hated Maldonados. We get a quick flashback showing as the utterly selfish type who refuses to help anyone, but always shows up to help himself.
In this case, he was planning to help himself to a quarter-million dollars, which he was taking to Aruba with a new girlfriend, abandoning his own wife and children, along with Zina's. As a blizzard rolls in and the power goes out, Zina starts hearing that voice. Out comes the hatchet and the mask, out goes a large amount of blood from Cyril and the state employee unlucky enough to have drawn the assignment of delivering the check with relocation funds.
The rest of the family is horrified, until Zina makes a brief speech. Even when she's speaking in English, as opposed to, what I think is an Eastern European, or maybe Scandinavian language, Kok uses that same stylized font. And in one panel, Saxton tints her and everything around her red, versus the normal coloring for the two characters in the foreground. After which, everyone is totally on board with Zina murdering two people!
Captain Akeyo attempts to interrogate one of the prisoners from last issue's fight on the location of a place called Absolution. Unfortunately, the use of a "day-lens" designed to collect and magnify the little bit of sunlight present around the 1000 year eclipse, is imprecise, and the prisoner incinerated.
In the meantime, Akeyo's insistence on ignoring any ship that doesn't have Church officials is causing some discontent, and Longlocks tries getting Nira on his side for a mutiny. At the next port, as he tries recruiting more muscle, Nira sees her old Majordomo, who is looking to purchase a human similar enough in appearance to Nira that, once turned and killed, can be presented to the new Empress as proof the old Empress is dead. Nira, a little drunk, picks a fight and cleans house, but is stopped from killing the majordomo.
Which seems ill-advised, but it's a nice little fight. Smashes a bottle across one guard's face, backhands a thrown dagger into another's throat. Though Pizzari's faces seem to be rougher and closer to sketches with each issue. But they did draw a "ghost typhoon", which is just a fantastic bit of madness. Full marks on that. Sensational Concept of 2026. Pushing issue 4 back to November hopefully will allow Pizzari some breathing room.
I'm actually most curious what Nira will take from the fact her subjects largely don't care she was overthrown. She is exceedingly self-centered, so it's possible she'll decide to hell with them. But, I could also see her wanting revenge. To regain her throne as a means to put the boot to everyone. Which is probably the wrong lesson to learn, but I'm not sure she's a quick study.
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In one of our recent elections, a "local" candidate's registered home address was in France. Now, France isn't that far away from here -- it's closer than, say, Birmingham -- but it's still a separate country, and one wonders how much the candidate actually cares about the area they are trying to be elected to represent.
You really would think there'd be laws against that sort of stuff. There are politicians in the U.S. whose "local" address for whatever office they're running for is just a PO box. I guess as long as it keeps working, they'll keep trying it.
Some of the attack ads against the Kansas guy quote him as saying he'll be in Iowa 'as much as possible.' I'm sure that's encouraging to the residents!
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