She Could fly #3

[stubbleupdate]

The big news to come out of NYCC for me was from Dark Horse

“We’re excited to announce we will be doing another arc of She Could Fly beginning in April! Wait till you see how the last issue of arc one ends!” @karenpberger #BergerBooks #NYCC2018

I'm in two minds about this. One the one hand, I love endings, and knowing that stories will end. I liked the idea of a tight 4 issue story that came out, did it's thing, and went away. Making a 2nd arc kind of undoes that.

On the other hand, more She Could Fly is exciting. And it just means that the ending of the story comes at #8, not at #4. I can live with that.

Previously on She Could Fly -
#1 we learned about Luna's obsession with the flying woman, that Luna has horrible intrusive thoughts, and that the flying woman exploded
#2 we saw Luna struggling with, but still beating her intrusive thoughts, finding out the name of the flying woman and where she worked, and talking to one of the flying woman's co workers. Then at the end, Luna's story and the story of the physicist who was working on the same project as the flying woman crossed over with them all in Luna's basement.

I'm not doing a story summary for #3, just highlighting two of my favourite moments.

Arc systems is where the Flying Woman worked


This felt a bit like a BKV scene (and not just for the factoid), but one with a bit more theatricality and humour.

And for fact fans
The cover features a photo of the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, in Saigon in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. The photograph drew international attention and persuaded U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw support for Ngô Đình Diệm's government. It was taken by Associated Press correspondent Malcolm Browne; a similar photograph earned the award of World Press Photo of the Year in 1963.
I'd post it, but...it's a man dying, and I'm not comfortable with that.



And as Luna's team goes to get the Flying Woman's diary, Luna and Verna get to talking


In the context of all of Luna's other intrusive thoughts (eating a cactus, running over pedestrians, killing her grandmother, killing her parents, announcing herself as the antichrist to her mother's prayer group) this isn't totally out of the blue. I do like Morazzo's acting here; he really gets facial expressions and body language working well for him.

Comments

[laughing_tree]

This is such a great premise for a story.

[kamino_neko]

Honestly, I don't see how this story COULD end satisfactorily at issue 4 - any sort of actual ending would be shaggy dog-ish, and it's a rare non-ending that works. So I'm glad it's getting a few more issues to breathe. (I never noticed the 'of four' on the cover, and assumed this would be six or eight issues.)