Act
One: Angela Spice uses her bio-integrated tech to “step” into the Internet. But
her presence is sensed by (I don’t know the name of the character) who is
neither IO or Skywatch. She has similar abilities, so this could be the
beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Act
Two (gesunheidt): John Lynch (the guy that looks like Sam Elliott) manages to locate an old
colleague, Gloria, who also has supernatural powers. She also talks like a
crossword wrapped in poetry. He’s there to warn her, but she seems capable of
handling whatever might be thrown at her.
Act
Three: Angela asks (another recurring character whose name I don’t know) to
teach her about guns. Not just how to fire them, but how they work, because her
integrated tech makes her a living, breathing 3D printer. She can manufacture
objects out of thin air, but without understanding the components, she’s only
making solid objects.
One
thing that bothers me about many modern comics is the extended scenes with no
dialogue, no captions, just a person doing stuff. In this case it’s John Lynch
sneaking through Gloria’s house, gun drawn, expecting someone or something to
attack him at any given moment. This went on too long, but I suppose it had to
for Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt to get their point across. But it rarely
works on the comic page; on screen, yes, but I don’t know many readers willing
to shell out hard earned money for three and half pages of total silence.
Amazingly,
this issue is not as confusing as previous installments. It’s basically three
pairs of characters, all in conversation. Kinda hard to mess that up. How these
five people (because one of them is used twice) come together in the overall
scheme remains to be seen. But, you could say that about any given issue of
this meandering series.
Rating:
6/10