Witchblade #154
Mar. 31st, 2012 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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scans_dailyI'm still not quite sure about Tim Seeley on Witchblade. He took over as the writer as of issue #151, and I'm not sure he quite has a grip on Sara's personality yet. It doesn't help that he's a fiend for grossouts, as anyone who reads Hack/Slash could tell you, and he's injected a lot more random nudity into the book.
There are a couple of things I like about his opening arc, though, such as a brief interjection in the latest issue, featuring a meeting between three past bearers of the Witchblade, Darkness, and Spear of Destiny.
Sara's been investigating the murder of a local alderman, which led her into conflict with, by turns, a coven of biker witches and a gang of rejuvenated senior citizens, who all wear some kind of bizarre suit of organic armor. It's not until this issue that she gets a handle on what's happened: there's an ancient power underneath Chicago and this isn't the first time it's run into the Witchblade.
The exact date isn't established, but Escatado's dialogue suggests that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 hasn't happened yet.
There are a couple of things I like about his opening arc, though, such as a brief interjection in the latest issue, featuring a meeting between three past bearers of the Witchblade, Darkness, and Spear of Destiny.
Sara's been investigating the murder of a local alderman, which led her into conflict with, by turns, a coven of biker witches and a gang of rejuvenated senior citizens, who all wear some kind of bizarre suit of organic armor. It's not until this issue that she gets a handle on what's happened: there's an ancient power underneath Chicago and this isn't the first time it's run into the Witchblade.
The exact date isn't established, but Escatado's dialogue suggests that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 hasn't happened yet.
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Date: 2012-03-31 09:05 pm (UTC)"[X] did it first" is a really hackneyed, irritating complaint. One of the first things you have to learn in pretty much any writing class is that if you go back far enough, absolutely everything has been done before. You aren't saying anything interesting, insightful, or creative by pointing out similarities between works.
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Date: 2012-04-01 01:31 am (UTC)Well that's going onto my list of things to do with a time machine.
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Date: 2012-04-01 12:41 pm (UTC)Swift wasn't so much as a rampant jackass as this guy though, and certainly not as racist.
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Date: 2012-04-01 08:54 pm (UTC)