Letter 44 #'s 7 and 8
First off, I am still enjoying this. Yes, starting a sentence like that pretty much guarantees a bitch session from me
but ... okay ... I am
just not understand the ... shift(?) in President Blades. Maybe that is something I will learn to understand later, but this guy just seems ... different from the guy I met in the first couple issues. His entire demeanor is different. That or I just read it different.
Also, again, another bitch about the baby. What human being what go on a suicide mission and while in the act of the mission, a suicide mission remind, decide to have a kid. That still bothers me.
I am also thinking that either Soule changed a few things before issue 8 was sent to the printer, the letterer forgot some dialog or there was some miscommunication between he and the artist as there is one panel that clearly shows a guy talking, and by his pose he is adamant about what he is saying, yet there is no word balloon for his remarks.
I thought I had missed something at first. Like I couldn't see the dialog box, but look here ...
As you can clearly see, the guy pointing his finger is saying something. And he is saying it loudly too
Yet there are no words. Long hair guy (edit ... old long hair guy with beard) has words. Guy at the bottom of the pic has words, but this guy, this guy that is pissed or ... or saying happy birthday
... he has no words. Maybe they got lost under that light fixture?
I know as you read this you are thinking I am not enjoying this series, but that would not be true. I am digging it, there is just a couple things I don't understand. Mostly dealing with human behavior but ... ya know the story has still got me. I am still here. Just hard pushing things aside that bug me. Like, for one example ...