A solid second issue, though perhaps not quite as strong as the first. The inclusion of some of P. Craig Russell's operatic adaptation is nice, as is the continuation of "Metamorphosis Odyssey." I'm not as keen on the R.E. Howard adaptation in this issue - Esau Cairn is far too "manly" a protagonist for my liking.
The stories are quite novel in that it's hard really to say what's coming next. Sometimes a fantasy story will morph wholesale into science fiction, and then back again. Or main characters are killed and the story end with them, and we're left not knowing what's just happened, really. There's also a fair bit of overt environmental and social critique going on. Archie Goodwin and Michelle Brand's "Sinner" questions excesses of both technology and faith quite nicely, though their conclusion is a little pessimistic for my liking.
Epic is overall a pretty readable magazine. The stories are cool, and some of the text articles are quite interesting. I haven't been reading them all as part of the project. It is about comics after all. But there's an article in today's comic, outlining the history of fantasy in European comics, that's looks really neat.
More Epic in a mere week! See you then!
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