Welcome to Year 6!
If indeed this project takes me 40 years, then I am one eighth finished - not a huge chunk, but definitely a significant fraction. I was going to read something special, a key issue from the collection, or something important to me, but I really just wanted to keep reading this story. It's very good.
A strange thing happens in today's comic, though - it seems that Ethan has become aware of his ability to astral project somehow. Indeed, we now find out that the red spirit is Ethan's astral projection, though it's only been hinted that that's what it is up to this point. For me, this was a moment of puzzlement in the story. Ethan hasn't been show to even have any awareness of the spirit, or of it's nocturnal activities, but now he's talking about projecting ("tripping") and has memories of the things he's seeing. I feel like there was a step of logic that was skipped here, and I can't for the life of me think of a reason why. Perhaps we'll get a flashback in the next issue to Ethan's discovery of this power, or perhaps we're simply to understand that his time in solitary has given him some insight into what's happening in the prison.
This coming year, I'm hoping to read from a really wide variety of publishers. I feel like I was a bit mainstream over the last year, and as I'm going through and revamping my sorting system, I'm coming across lots of really cool things from lots of really cool places. I hope I'll have an opportunity to share them with you over the next little while. But, for now, we're going to stick with this odd and interesting emanation from Steve Gerber's mind, at least until the end of Season 1.
More to follow.
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