Five Years Vol. 2: Stalemate

Five Years #2

by Terry Moore

The Phi bomb is under construction in Russia and Katchoo is determined to stop it. Her diplomatic trip to Moscow is sabotaged by a dangerous KGB assassin and Zoe must complete the mission and find the man developing "the last bomb." Meanwhile, Stephanie retrieves one half of the Cleopatra scroll that started the new arms race and quickly discovers the author wants it back!

The stakes have never been higher as Katchoo and friends try to leave Russia with one of the country's top physicists and bring a dangerous nuclear game to a stalemate!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Ebooks

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

Following the examples of independent comic creators such as Dave Sim and Jeff Smith, he decided to publish Strangers in Paradise himself through his own Houston-based "Abstract Studios" imprint, and has frequently mentioned a desire to do a syndicated cartoon strip in the authors notes at the back of the Strangers in Paradise collection books. He has also mentioned his greatest career influence is Peanuts' Charles Schulz.[1] Some of Moore's strip work can additionally be found in his Paradise, Too! publications.

His work has won him recognition in the comics industry, including receiving the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for Strangers in Paradise #1-8, which was collected in the trade paperback "I Dream of You".

It was announced on June 15th, 2007 that Moore would be taking over for Sean McKeever as writer of Marvel Comics's Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane series starting with a new issue #1. On July 27th, Marvel announced that Moore would also take over for Joss Whedon as writer of Marvel's Runaways.[2]

On November 19th, 2007 Terry Moore announced in his blog that his new self-published series would be named Echo and its first issue would appear on March 5th, 2008.[3]

Reviews

[Theo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. Also, the trade title gives away the ending.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terry Moore pulled it off. He crossed over all of his series even though Echo Lake is sci-fi and Rachel Rising is about eternal witches. The Strangers in Paradise stalwarts do most of the heavy lifting as they attempt to stop the world's most dangerous bomb from being developed. It does feel like this may have initially been planned for a longer run until the Pandemic got in the middle of it. Still at this point I'd read Terry Moore's grocery list if he let me.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Combining most of the characters from other story lines seemed contrived at first, but it worked out better than I expected. A couple characters like were seen at the beginning but played no part in the story. It's clear from the end that another volume is coming. I hope they show up there. They're interesting characters.

[Simon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recent Reads: Five Years Vol 2 - Stalemate. Kachoo must fly to a Moscow winter in Terry Moore's conclusion to his crossover saga. Rachel and Zoe are in trouble. With the world in the balance, Moore's heroines are our only hope. Old gods and monsters are on the rise. Again.

[Bookworm Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sigh. They all met up

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

More please!

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tedious

[Andres Pasten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Se nota que la pandemia afectó este crossover, el final es muy extraño y poco de Moore

[Alana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This works best as a middle book. Is it a middle book? Could it be? Everything rushes so fast in this one.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dots connected.