Commentaries
Commentary for “Foresight”
Up late tonight, so I might as well add my thoughts to yours as you guys take a perusal through the GN. Remember, if our site’s template hasn’t updated the GN yet, you can just take last week’s PDF and easter egg link and increase the chapter number by one to get this week’s stuff.
We have Alitha Martinez to thank for this and last week’s GN and they’re absolutely stunning in terms of artwork. I just have to take a moment aside to say that I’m a big fan. It’s like a breath of fresh air after all the hyper skinny chicks. In my mind, all the women portrayed in this week’s GN is much more attractive.
The ending gives us a horrible TBC cliffhanger and we don’t really know when this story will pick up again. Volume three starts soon, so maybe this story line will be wrapped up on the TV series? We’ll just have to wait and see as we usually do.
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Commentary for “Hindsight” part one
Woot, continuation story! Now we can see the aftermath of Sabine’s escape. The ambiguity of both Evs and the Company’s motives and intent is really thrilling. It’s almost like a Tarantino movie, where the lines of morality and ethics are blurred and you can find yourself cheering for a “bad” guy. I suppose we’ll know how we feel about the whole a bit better once we can put a face to Ev’s name.
As I mentioned before, I love tie-ins. I especially love how tidbits of information become important later on (Douglas Adams being one of my favourite author). In this GN, we once again see the importance of trust, which Thompson talked about a while back, and how everything falls apart once seeds of distrust are sown and segregation sets in.
While this story arc will probably not touch upon where Sabine and Julien ran off to, I’m hoping that we’ll learn about them later. Hopefully, they’ll bump into Evs and we’ll be able to see him/her without shadows covering his/her face.
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Commentary for “Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration” part two
Mmmmm….tie-ins, they are very delicious. These are the kinds of Graphic Novels that should be released. I guess that, for some reason or another, I just like being rewarded for the extra spans of attention I give them. The reward that I crave the most is actually knowing more about the series than the average fan that just watches the TV series. Call it nerdy one-upmanship or what have you, but I really like this story arc and I hope we get more of the same.
So now we have an exact timeline with everything. This GN spans a relatively long span of time and shows that Daphne has been in the game for a bit. The tie-in with mp3 crate puts her initial jobs 4 months before the present time of volume two. Donna joins the Company shortly after and Evs begins his/her work there as well. Some time either before or running parallel to volume two, Sabine and Julien leaves the company, Micah’s granny is bagged, Devin dies, and the kill squad is formed. The ending panels of this GN brings us up to present time for volume three.
I can’t wait for the shows to start. Hiro’s still my favourite character and it looks like we’ll be getting lots of him again, which is good, and without ancient Japan, which is double plus good. Hit the jump for the page by page.
Commentary for “Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration” part one
I don’t recognize the shot or the lady in the easter egg this week, is this for the new season? I’m hoping someone can throw me a bone here.
A quick sidenote for those of you that follow my personal blog (the link is in my bio above after the jump). I said last week that I was stopping my weekly updates and, though this is still true, I did make an update today. Silly, I know, but I’m still stopping my personal blog and moving forward with more lucrative writing projects.
Anyways, interesting story we get here today. The Daphne lady here looks like the one next to Hiro in the easter egg. Unlike other new characters in the past, I think we’re going to get a bit more mileage out of this one as she is apparently tied to some other storyline.
Like always, the page by page is after the jump…
Commentary for “Going Postal”
Though I’m proud to be Canadian, it does strike me as irksome that I am unable to watch the Going Postal webisodes. That being the case, forgive me if I have no idea what is really going on. I can infer quite a bit from the GN, but life is in the details, or so they say…
We have a neat ability this time and some funny references to random things. I enjoyed this week’s comic enough that I’m willing to forgive Echo’s punerrific name and the horrible one liner at the end. What I especially like is the return of a few familiar faces, I wonder if they showed up in the webisodes? That’ll be neat…
Anyways, follow the jump for the page by page commentary:
Commentary for “The Kill Squad” part three
With Devin dead, or otherwise incapacitated, it’s good to know that we have someone new to take up the “specials” hating role.
I guess we were all confused about the name of the squad these past two weeks. All the time I thought we were already watching the Kill Squad do their thing. Now it seems like they were more like glorified security guards called onto the field. You know, the type that gets shot randomly by Sabine in the hallway of the company.
Anyways, we now have the official Kill Squad, created for a purpose and acting with an agenda of their own. Let us delve deeper into the pages…
