After any huge story it’s reasonable to assume that you’ll need time to decompress. You can’t just keep going hell for leather without processing what happened before or you’ll burn out. It’s a tricky balance to find though as you also don’t want to things to completely deflated.
Unfortunately I do feel deflated out after reading #45. If you’ve read my reviews before you’ll know I’m pretty glowing about it all, and overall the latest issue still contains the qualities that define the series. Amazing artwork from the returning Mateus Santolouco, brought to life by brilliant lettering and colours from stalwarts Shawn Lee and Ronda Pattison, married to well written dialogue from Tom Waltz.
So what am I going on about? The problem I had is that I read this issue in the same week I read the finale to the latest Batman story. There are similarities, but they make very different choices. In Batman, those decision carry much more weight.
Comics are known for letting characters go and bringing them back, so why not use to that to your advantage? Make us believe that actions have true consequences, at least for a few issues. Maybe in the course of time it will all make sense and I’ll be eating these words. I hope so.
On the plus side, we do get to see Casey again, and he’s doing what he does best. I was worried he’d gone a bit soft and wasn’t going to get enough attention.
It’s still a quality comic, and had my bar not been set so high by not only the previous issue but the series overall I’d probably have not been disappointed and let it off. No can do though.
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