Captives #2

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• 6.0

  Comic Bastards - Ben Boruff

  Jul 19, 2017

  After Banchitta's impressively choreographed battle sequence, a couple characters begin fighting over a sword, and one character suggests that "some type of competition suited towards strongmen like yourselves" could settle the argument. Unlike the kill-count banter between Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the Rings, this conversation completely shifts the tone of the narrative. An important, character-building battle has just ended, but readers are given no time to process its events. One character even points out the absurdity of this: "We just were attacked and now we're fighting over a sword. This is mad!" But old Irwin replies, "No, this is perfectly normal...It always starts out this way." Read Full Review