The nice thing about this series is it kicks into high gear almost from the very beginning. This issue we're introduced to some unsavory characters that are experts at cleaning up the sort of temporal messes that Teddy has made, though they're not shy about using their cleaning powers on anything deemed aberrant, such as a gender-less David Bowie lookalike who witnessed Teddy's crime. We're also introduced to someone who was in Teddy's situation but ended up neutralizing the puppy-shaped anomaly he found, and who realized that the rules under which they labour are, at times, difficult to enforce.
There's also a fair bit of nudity in this issue, which I was not expecting. Usually such things are signaled by a content warning on the cover, but there's no such beast on the cover of this comic.
The beginning of the issue is a visualization of Teddy's internal dialogue when she's faced with difficult situations. We meet a variety of versions of the character, and it's a nice way of thinking through the various voices that we all have in our heads. Though, in Teddy's case, none of them are saying nasty things to her. That's not always the case in our day to day lives.
Having said that the comic kicks into high gear immediately, the story itself hasn't really moved much forward by the end of this issue from the place that it begins. Much of the time is spent kicking around what should be done about this human-shaped anomaly (named "Ano," as she doesn't seem to remember her name), and there's a substantial portion of the comic dedicated to the two women lying in bed together. While this might sound boring, or exploitative, it serves a very interesting function. Though ostensibly a comic about a rogue time anomaly agent, it's more properly a comic about dealing with a relationship that was completely unexpected, and takes one by surprise. Our focal character, Teddy, was certainly not expecting to fall for anyone; she outlines the fact that the future society within which she lives has even gone so far as to somehow remove the feeling of love from human interaction. So when we get these quiet moments, we're seeing a stylized representation of the experience of falling, unexpectedly, in love. And, though slow, these moments can be every bit as exciting as the more kinetic action sequences.
We'll follow Teddy and Ano's adventures a bit more tomorrow. See you then.
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