Everything is coming to a boil as we lay the groundwork for the Far Sector finale in this, our penultimate issue! Riots are breaking out across the City Enduring as its citizens realize that there are political shenanigans disrupting their way of life and subverting the will of the people. To quell this unrest, @BlazeofGlory is threatening to unleash a terrible weapon upon her own people. Jo has to race against the ticking clock of a Green Lantern ring that is rapidly losing power to bypass the city’s entire defense forces and stop this attack from above.
Far Sector's penultimate issue brings the action and the conflict as it sets up a finale where Jo Mullein has more ways to fail than she does to succeed. Read Full Review
N.K. Jemisin hits hard from the opening page and keeps the foot on the gas from that point forward, rolling Jo, Syzn, and Marth into the chaos to try and keep the city from destroying itself. Read Full Review
Jemisin and Campbell do almost everything right in this issue, and it's another great stepping stone to what might be an incredible conclusion. Read Full Review
When all is said and done, Far Sector #11 delivers a near-flawless setup for its upcoming finale issue. With the stakes as high as they can get for the City Enduring, all that remains is to see if Mullein truly has what it takes to wear that emerald ring on her finger. Read Full Review
Jo's situation gets worse, but every page of it is fascinating and visually amazing, with an ending that makes me want the last chapter right now. Read Full Review
A hectic, complex, and gorgeous issue that lays out the players and allegiances in a massive uprising in the second to final issue of this stellar series. Read Full Review
Despite the turmoil, there is still some sanity within the city and those willing to fight to help it from devolving ever further into madness. Are their enough, however, to halt the chaos before the end comes? Read Full Review
Campbell delivers some beautiful imagery throughout this issue. The style is perfect for this eclectic group of beings and their alien environment. Read Full Review
The penultimate issue of this excellent series ramps up the stakes and the excitement at the cost of having any idea what's going on. All of the crazy characters and aliens fling themselves willy nilly around this issue, and it's easy to get lost. Read Full Review
While the pacing of this series sometimes feels off, there's no doubt this will be an incredible read as a single volume. For the most part the deficiencies can be worked through as there are so many fantastic elements in this series. That doesn't mean don't buy Far Sector #11, but rather a reminder to collect them all so they may be read together at the reader's pace like a novel not beholden to publishing schedules. Read Full Review
N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell have created a world I love to return to every time an Issue of this title drops. While I wish it had been able to stick to a monthly schedule, it's a compliment to the otherness and freshness of Jemisin's and Campbell's style that I remember what happened before.
As always the art and colors are great. Something I truly appreciate is that Campbell uses the constructs in a creative way. It's the little things that make great storytelling art. Esthetic isn't enough.
Since the last Issue, the narrative has picked up speed and it continues to do so as different threads come together. The City Enduring has only been enduring in a lot of ways, and @BlazeofGlory too lives up to her name.
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“I can’t go on living in this emotionless hell,” they said emotionally, surrounded by distressed/angry people, on a world that is rioting for uh super non-emotional reasons, beaten back by armed enforcers who seem pretty angry, upset, sad and/or panicked, which are definitely not emotions you guys don’t worry about it.
This was fine. A lot of this issue came across as silly to me. It's a failure on the part of the writer to take concepts that are generally not taken seriously, like memes and Twitter, and trying to mix it with themes of oppression and authoritarianism. Which is... Unfortunate. It means now that we're getting payoffs to earlier developments, I don't really care. I'm just reading it to finish it at this point.
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