With the astonishing secret of Azoth revealed at last and the fate of the digital and analog worlds at stake, the Tall Poppies come into conflict over which is the best of very bad options, all of them fatal. As Cassandra agonizes over whom to side with, the girls’ true enemy makes their move.
So been waiting to get to this issue and at the end of this story arc I wasn’t satisfied. It’s been building and building for a huge action scene and it turned out to be plot point after plot point instead.
It’s a no-brainer, really–this series has everything I love. Science fiction, strong female leads, bright colours with a gritty realism, intrigue, and cliffhangers. The dystopian world the story is set in is one that is easy to imagine in our foreseeable future. Adverts everywhere you look because you have nanotech in your eyeballs, a holographic AI popping up to tell you things, oh, and an entire digital world, pseudo-superheroes, and the monsters they fight. That last bit is less foreseeable.
A longer review of the series can be found at my book blog: Marvel at Words.
This was a great issue - but in particular I loved how much emotion they were able to stuff into it. It made the conclusion to this plot so much more impactful.