The book has a strong emotional core, and I love that about it. It's so full of human emotion, and it's able to convey and understand it on a deeper level than many books. There was a lot of nuance and honesty. You can tell Ayala's writing from experience. It was a good issue and a nice change of pace from the slough we got in the last 9-ish issues.
My biggest complaint though, would be the dialogue. Like it comes off as so manufactured, like it came from a blog about self-help rather than the characters' own heads. They wanted to convey the ideas, but didn't do it in a way that felt like the characters were talking in their own voices. A few characters were fine, but it was really noticeable.
The No-Girl stuff is weird. Don't give me that bull about them not considering her. They didn't fail her, she just forgot she could go through the Crucible or Waiting Room at any time.
Still don't care for Karma/Gallura. I get nothing from seeing them kiss. Maybe I missed past books with them, but I only remember seeing them interact in Voices: Pride - and that was largely about Karma fawning over Vita's OC and saying how amazing she was.
The Krakoan reads THE LABORS OF MAGIK
A really enjoyable issue. I do appreciate Vita's handling of the various resolutions for these individual characters. The art took some getting used to but it did remind me of Brett Blevins' NM work back in the day so it's all good.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
No scene like that exists. The only scene that even suggests Magik has a problem with Karma is the scene where Karma quits in the Rosenberg Uncanny run after Rahne died. That's pre-Krakoa, let alone pre-Ayala. There is no scene in which Dani and Karma both try to help Rahne. There's a scene in the first issue where Dani is trying to help Karma with her nightmares when Magik comes in for her coffee and Karma leaves because she's discussing something very personal and doesn't want to deal with Magik's big man on campus attitude at that moment and Rahne has to explain to Magik that Karma had been having nightmares. Nothing about that has anything to do with Magik's feelings on Karma's actions in Dead Souls.
Well, I certainly trust Vita Ayala to make the rules of "mutant magic" over Tini Howard. (Seriously, did we get any details beyond "X's are better" and "stand in circles"?)
Also, I liked the Strange Academy shout-out.
A little melodramatic for my taste, but still cool enough. I hope next arc has more action and fun. All this talk about feelings gets a little boring lol.
Excited for what Rod Reis will do with this magic aspect coming to the fore front.
Did they show the new looks of No-Girl and Cosmar??????
"COURAGE, DON'T YOU DARE LET ME DOWN"
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Yes. But with Cosmar I'm pretty sure it's not her final form but an intermediate form and she'll be going back for more sessions,
With No-Girl, unless I totally missed something, she didn't go through the Crucible. They just made her a body and downloaded her mind into it. There was no point in her having a fight to the death since she was already a brain in a jar with no body.
My flag is bacon.