Originally Posted by
Fokken
Perhaps that will be revisited once Carol returns? Maybe Grace is rallying, or biding her time, or plotting, or whatever sociopaths do in their down time.
Um, that isn't what she said. She didn't say WE came to love the people of Torfa. She said "I've come to really care about the people of Torfa." Kelly Sue cares about them. This sort of attention to detail may be the reason the series hasn't produced a more adequate aroma to appease your sophisticated literary nostrils.
It seems like the primary complaint people have about this space arc -- is the space. What's wrong with space? Not a fan of space territory wars? Invading dictators? The new cast members just too "wacky"? Is it the lack of familiar faces? "Where is Jess??" or "Why isn't Kit in this??" or maybe you just hate the Guardians of the Galaxy hype going on right now.
KSD elevated Carol to such a remarkable level of quality that she caught my attention and hooked me.
I'd no vested interest in Carol previously. She was primarily just that woman Rogue leeched one time, and who gave a sales pitch to Emma about registration minutes after a mutant massacre. No Kelly Sue has given Carol a STRONG voice, and a solid sense of conviction, and endeared readers to her heart by developing these uniquely brilliant support cast member relationships. I'll admit this arc hasn't gripped me as tightly as when KSD first started writing Carol -- I think her stuff with Deathbird and/or the memory sacrifice was strongest both visually and narratively, but this has still been a fun read -- and this last issue udner Marcio Takara's pencil is lovely.