quote:Originally posted by Dave Hackett: How can it be that no one's mentioned that one of the villains is named "Ex Nihilo".
Hmph... a villain, indeed!
An editorially mandated character, no doubt. Is this how low we've sunk, Dan DiDio?
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quote:Originally posted by Chaim Mattis Keller: The problem with that character is that she wasn't developed organically within the storyline. She just seemed to appear out nowhere!
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quote:Originally posted by Dave Hackett:
quote:Originally posted by Chaim Mattis Keller: The problem with that character is that she wasn't developed organically within the storyline. She just seemed to appear out nowhere!
rimshot!
Ha!
One of my brain cells was like, 'I don't get it' and the other one slapped it and said, 'dumbass.'
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The first story arc closes out rather anticlimatically. I'm still enjoying the off-the-wall identities, but I found Ex Nilo/Squid/The Abyss to not be very compelling threats. Despite spending 5 issues on them, they just seemed under-developed. That said, the brief appearance of the "shadow on the line" and its mastery of dialing was really cool. Setting it up as a dial hunter gives it all sorts of potential.
I am concerned about the upcoming artist shift, as this book has such a distinct tone, that I don't know if the Frankenstein artist (who's name escapes me), is up for the task.
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quote:Originally posted by Dave Hackett: The first story arc closes out rather anticlimatically. I'm still enjoying the off-the-wall identities, but I found Ex Nilo/Squid/The Abyss to not be very compelling threats. Despite spending 5 issues on them, they just seemed under-developed. That said, the brief appearance of the "shadow on the line" and its mastery of dialing was really cool. Setting it up as a dial hunter gives it all sorts of potential.
I am concerned about the upcoming artist shift, as this book has such a distinct tone, that I don't know if the Frankenstein artist (who's name escapes me), is up for the task.
I think that was the point, that they were supposed to be seen as big threats when in reality they were little fish compared to Abyss. And Squid himself was more neutral and pragmatic than evil. He just wanted to find his companion and go home, but X.N. kept him stuck there and used him to try and find Abyss for her own purposes. She was the truly villainous one, but in the grand scheme of things she was just a little too proud and couldn't really match up to Abyss or the shadow on the line.
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