Wow. I loved the psychological arc of this book. Tomasi and Gleason really nailed it. I especially enjoyed issue #8: the dénouement was a perfect way to end the arc.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to, given how much I dislike Damian’s personality. They do a good job with an extremely disagreeable character of making him tolerable without making him nice. That’s a tough thing to do but I think they’ve nailed it here.

The art was particularly nice. I stopped and carefully examined several of the pages, both the fantastic double-page spreads as well as the normal single pages. All of it is immersive, clear, and impressive. This is a book I will put right back on my “to-be-read” pile with excitement! more

Best issue in the series so far, by a long shot. Nice to see some type of closure with his parents, even if it might not have been exactly what he wanted, nor probably where the story will end with Bobby & his folks.

I loved the art, and the juxtaposition of Bobby’s hand-written letter with the fight against Juggernaut was a nice narrative device.

I definitely got some feels from this. Bobby’s father’s acceptance of him was both a surprise, and also felt very real. I think his letter helped a lot, even though that wasn’t explicit.

It hit me harder than I expected, this issue. Coming to grips with a hard truth that you’ve been denying a long time can be very, very hard. Even though my issue is quite different than Bobby’s, I really felt the weight of the changes in this issue.

I was really moved. Great comic. more

Wow, this had me hooked from the get-go. Wonderful start! And the surprise at the end was brilliant, and made me question my biases, which was kind of the whole point of the comic to begin with.

This is the kind of debut issue that has the feeling of being another Saga in the making. The world feels vast, there is a huge amount of backstory to be discovered, and it feels totally believable. This is speculative fiction done extremely well.

The feeling I got from reading this was like the feeling I used to get when I would read a particularly good first chapter in a good SF trilogy. That little hum you get in your brain where you say “Oh, man. This has all of the right ingredients, it feels like a fully fleshed-out world, and has the potential to be one of the best trilogies I’ve read this year.” Swap out SF trilogy for SF comic series, and it’s the same feeling.

This zooms right to the top of my to-be-read pile. more