Unsurprisingly, things don't go particularly well for the would-be assassins that Old Man Prophet sends to cement his alliance with the Crystal Blessed.
You know, really, only when talking about comics can you say things like that.
This mini-series is not turning out like I imagined it would at all, and I'm so very glad. I really thought that it would be a full-on epic war comic, like the last big battle in the Lord of the Rings films, but what we're seeing instead is actually moments in between these battles. Since the end of the main series, Old Man Prophet and his allies have reached Earth and gathered together an army, though not one strong enough to defeat the Empire. Hints are dropped that there have been large-scale battles, but none of these have been depicted. Instead we're seeing the intrigues behind the war.
I shouldn't be surprised that the comic is doing things I wasn't expecting, really. It's basically done that all along, and had it descended into predictability, it wouldn't have been staying true to the ethos its demonstrated all along: make something weird, wonderful, and utterly different, and you'll make something great.
To be continued.
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