• BÊLIT has a plan to extort the rich cities along the coast...
• ...but as she makes her name in the Hyborian Age, is she leading herself to a watery grave?
• And who is the mysterious observer who is tracking her?
• PLUS: Part 3 of an all-new Bêlit novella, "Bone Whispers"!
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Belit, both the book and the character, finally finds a purpose in this issue, but it is perhaps too little, too late. Read Full Review
It's about F-ing time this captain exerted his authority.
I jumped on all three Conan titles, this one is definitely the weakest. It's not bad, it's not good, its a clumsy in between. The dialogue is stiff, the art is mediocre at best, the panels and flow are clunky. This issue is supposed to be Belit's coming of age in a sense, but it reads like a rough draft, sort of choppy, and the outcome is anti-climatic. It made little sense. I will probably drop this one.
THE GOOD:
-This wasn't as atrocious as last issue. Yay!
-The art was… adequate. Eh, I'll take it.
-That map splash page was cool.
-I was glad to see the captain die.
-I don't know why exactly, but that page with the drummers and the little rhyme was surprisingly appealing to me.
THE BAD:
-All the action scenes seem to be brought down by unnecessary weak dialogue invading what would otherwise be a cool and excited scene.
-I don't think Belit is a very strong character at all.
-The last page does not get me excited for next issue.
This issue really fails to flow and that's its biggest problem. It is getting the basics of comics wrong and it's a shame.
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