PREVIEW: The Massive, #30

[CBR News]

Dead calm. Quiet seas. Second chances? The Ninth Wave crew enter a brand-new chapter in Earth's history.


Full article here.

[thewarning]

So ready for this book to be over. Have absolutely hated the climactic twist to the series.

[Kirby101]

So ready for this book to be over. Have absolutely hated the climactic twist to the series.

So Mary being the daughter of Gaea, and the Earth rebelling against the scourge of mankind didn't do it for you?

[eye of all]

This book confirms I'll never 'get' Brian Wood.

[thewarning]

So Mary being the daughter of Gaea, and the Earth rebelling against the scourge of mankind didn't do it for you?

I preferred the preceding 20-or-so issues of mostly realistic depictions of a post-environmental catastrophe society. It's got it's toes in science, economics and ethnography. And it's totally unique cast was interesting to me, though not always engaging.

But then comes along the reveal of divinity/magic/powers, and with it, what I felt to be cheap dramatic escalation. It took me far out of the human struggle. There was no precedent for it in the first two years of the book.