Scout s Honor #5 Review: Highly Recommended
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Scouts Honor #5 starts with a flashback that provides great room for a wonderful callback; this action-packed series finale builds wonderfully on everything that has happened before. Likewise, elements of hoisted by his own petard come into play with the series Seventh Law for a wonderful bit of dramatic resolution, giving each main character a complete arc.
Scout s Honor #5 Cover. Credit: Aftershock Comics
Kit is considered a heretic, a teenaged girl who has masqueraded as a boy to be a member of the Ranger Scouts, the only semblance of order in a post thermonuclear dystopia. For years, Kit has worked her way up the ranks to become one of the best of her organization, working carefully to hide her gender, which is prohibited by the Third Law, prohibiting non-cis-gendered males from being Scouts. Now, armed with the knowledge of the Scouts true, less than noble, origins Kit is focused on ripping the shroud off all the
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Determined to bring the truth behind Doctor Jefferson Hancock’s death to her people, Kit will be forced into the fight of her life against the forces of Scoutmaster Shepherd but with the future of the Colorado Badlands at stake, can even a Scout’s honor be enough to win the day?
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With the final issue of the series, we get a pretty tight and pat close to all that has gone down in this run. David Pepose covers pretty much all the dangling plot threads well enough that you’d want to and it handles what it needs to in regards to both big and small picture. But it’s also filled with a ton of action to it that really keeps it moving and engaging to read as opposed to an all-epilogue kind of installment. That lets Luca Casalanguida put together something really fun to work with as we get the giant spiders, flaming swords, general weapons, and a lot more. It really flows well and hits a
Silver City Launches, Babyteeth Returns, Aftershock May 2021 Solicits
Silver City Launches, Babyteeth Returns, Aftershock May 2021 Solicits
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Babyteeth #17, solicited before the pandemic and now being resolicited with
Donny Cates and Silver City, by
SILVER CITY #1
(W) Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (A) Luca Merli (CA) Roberta Ingranata
When a young roughneck lands in Silver City, the gritty, purgatorial metropolis of the afterlife, she must adapt to her new existence, while attempting to uncover how and why she died. Her mission is derailed, however, when she rescues a newly dead girl from a mysterious kidnapping attempt, and discovers powerful, kinetic abilities.
Welcome to Silver City, where the sun never rises and nothing ever chang-es…until now.