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Dark Spaces: Good Deeds #6
Dark Spaces: Good Deeds #6
After saving the day at the commencement ceremony, Cheyenne and Rebecca are now heralded as town heroes. Everyone is preparing to celebrate at the diner for a town-wide party. It even seems like Jean is going to finally break her big case…but the secret she discovers will change everything. There are still deeds that have gone unpunished, but punishment is coming in the shocking conclusion to Dark Good Deeds.
34 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2023
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November 22, 2023
A Big Letdown😞
I appreciate it whenever someone sets their story in my home state of Florida (it’s nice to be thought of). With that said, there wasn’t a whole lot (besides including a gator, the fountain of youth legend, and mentioning the Timucua) that really made it feel like the story was set in Florida. I’ve been to Saint Augustine a few times and the depiction and description of it, a small town & a community that is “dying” (according to this comics advertisements in other series), doesn’t really feel like the actual place. There were no panels showing lots of landmarks (besides TenPmce De Leon Hotel) that made the story feel like it was set in Saint Augustine (besides saying it was set there). I have to wonder how deeply the writer and artist researched the place before working on this series. Truth be told, it feels like they wanted to tell a story that would work better in a place like Salem Massachusetts (which is unsurprisingly where this story left off). In the advertisements, the series touted that is was “about the dark roots of American colonialism”, which again, would have made Salem (or better yet Plymouth) a better place to set this story. There were so many things that this series could have explored, like the slave raids (which would’ve been targeting the original native tribes, like the Calusa, Ais, etc.) that probably took place before Ponce De Leon even laid eyes on Florida, the failed Spanish attempts to set up colonial beachheads (Ponce De Leon, Narváez, etc.), the horrors wrought by Hernando de Soto, how the repartimiento system screwed over the native americans, & how Florida’s first native tribes like the Timucua, Apalachee, Calusa, etc. were destroyed due to a combination of old world diseases, Spanish oppression & being caught between England and Spain during their colonial wars (where natives were captured as slaves in huge numbers). But none of that was used & the critique of American Colonialism was barebones and made no specific points. This series should’ve been either way shorter and told a simpler story or it should’ve told a longer & more thoughtful provoking narrative. The story didn’t really have any bigger messages besides, “history is written by the victors but it shouldn’t be”. The story also paints Saint Augustine & it’s population as a less complex place then its actually is, which bugged me. I would love to see the series turned into a tv series or movie that could improve on the original material, because the bones of a good & thoughtful story are there. The art was also amazing, though I wish they had done more to show the actual place in the artwork. I’m not mad at the series, just disappointed it didn’t do more with the wealth of history that Florida (& Saint Augustine more specifically) has to offer.
I appreciate it whenever someone sets their story in my home state of Florida (it’s nice to be thought of). With that said, there wasn’t a whole lot (besides including a gator, the fountain of youth legend, and mentioning the Timucua) that really made it feel like the story was set in Florida. I’ve been to Saint Augustine a few times and the depiction and description of it, a small town & a community that is “dying” (according to this comics advertisements in other series), doesn’t really feel like the actual place. There were no panels showing lots of landmarks (besides TenPmce De Leon Hotel) that made the story feel like it was set in Saint Augustine (besides saying it was set there). I have to wonder how deeply the writer and artist researched the place before working on this series. Truth be told, it feels like they wanted to tell a story that would work better in a place like Salem Massachusetts (which is unsurprisingly where this story left off). In the advertisements, the series touted that is was “about the dark roots of American colonialism”, which again, would have made Salem (or better yet Plymouth) a better place to set this story. There were so many things that this series could have explored, like the slave raids (which would’ve been targeting the original native tribes, like the Calusa, Ais, etc.) that probably took place before Ponce De Leon even laid eyes on Florida, the failed Spanish attempts to set up colonial beachheads (Ponce De Leon, Narváez, etc.), the horrors wrought by Hernando de Soto, how the repartimiento system screwed over the native americans, & how Florida’s first native tribes like the Timucua, Apalachee, Calusa, etc. were destroyed due to a combination of old world diseases, Spanish oppression & being caught between England and Spain during their colonial wars (where natives were captured as slaves in huge numbers). But none of that was used & the critique of American Colonialism was barebones and made no specific points. This series should’ve been either way shorter and told a simpler story or it should’ve told a longer & more thoughtful provoking narrative. The story didn’t really have any bigger messages besides, “history is written by the victors but it shouldn’t be”. The story also paints Saint Augustine & it’s population as a less complex place then its actually is, which bugged me. I would love to see the series turned into a tv series or movie that could improve on the original material, because the bones of a good & thoughtful story are there. The art was also amazing, though I wish they had done more to show the actual place in the artwork. I’m not mad at the series, just disappointed it didn’t do more with the wealth of history that Florida (& Saint Augustine more specifically) has to offer.
November 30, 2023
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