Awesome to see so many EoW fans in here!
To me, there isn't a more essential ongoing in Indy comics. What Hickman & Dragotta are doing is something that has been needed for quite sometime. To dig into the languishing landscape of apocalyptic comic literature and grasp fresh tendrils of life is revelatory. I for one, have grown weary of art that sets out to accomplish nothing, that reiterates an isolating listlessness that heaps an already heavy overburdened sense of helpless upon the individual. It was needed for a time, I suppose. I clarion call and a soul's lament at the state of the world and the lack of meaningful means for changing things - a lack of substantial vision that could infuse true hope in the face so much 'knowing' how bad things are and continue to be.
Hickman & Dragotta aren't shying away from the darkness...they give it depth...they give it life...and they give it purpose. White Death with his Black Shadows (Crow and Wolf) - are flipping the scenario...they have broken from the fated 'message' of the horsemen...and that LOVE is the force compelling the defiance...is beautiful.
It's not a book that can easily be read issue to issue and thankfully the trades have been released with dutiful speed. Yet, it's also not easy to put down the trades. This story moves with the pacing of a novel but once your in the flow there's a sense of losing the shore...once you get in and swim out a ways...you find yourself in a vastness that draws you in and out...so you read on and re-read and read out of the panels into the possibilities that beckon from every perspective.
Is there a character or group of characters that speaks to you above the others?
Who do you see as your hero and you who do you see as your adversary?
Is East of West a story of the End of Days or is it something different?
Have you had any 'Revelations' from you reading?
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When God tried to chop Crow in two
He made woman
When God said: 'You win, Crow,'
He made the Redeemer.
poet; Ted Hughes from his collection "Crow"