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It seems the last few issues have caused some people to stop reading this book from reading over at the CBR forum. I think it boils down to people feeling they want more answers or want them more quickly than Nick is giving them out. I still love the book, and here's a pretty good interview about the end of season one:
People have been noticing that #24 was originally planned for early January, and obviously that hasn't happened. The reason for that is because this grew into a giant, double-sized issue. It's 44 pages, and it will be $3.99. That's basically part one of the two-part Season Finale. And I think #24 may be my new favorite issue of the series. It's certainly my favorite since #9, 10 and 11, which I'm a big sucker for. I felt that was our best stretch prior, but #24 is right there with those. As you can probably tell from the end of #23 and the final cover to #24, we're going to get back to the Ike and Abraham stuff. Jade's also involved. That issue comes out on February 6.
#25 will also be double-sized for $3.99. It's the big Season Finale, 25th issue event. And from there, we'll have the volume 4 trade hit in early April, and issue #26 will be a $1.00, full-sized prelude issue to the second season. It'll be a great jumping on point to the single issues for all the trade readers who may want to start following us monthly. The the Season Two premier will hit with #27, which will again be double-sized and $3.99. And that will have a whole host of pretty awesome variants by some of my favorite artists. We're moving into a big stretch of high profile issues to get people excited about the new season.
That's definitely one reason I love this book, you get a LOT of story for the same price as other books with just 22 pages.
To be 100% honest, I lost interest in it. The artwork never really clicked for me, and I suppose I'm too jaded by Lost now. Seems every show, book, etc. is built on a "Look at the weird new twist we'll explain sometime down the road...or not!" paradigm. Normally, I don't mind that, but you have to give me solid art to keep me coming back OR you have to throw me a bone and let me know what's going at least a little bit.
I stopped reading after ... #5 or #6, or so. Just seemed like it had real pacing/timing issues that I just couldn't get over. There were times when reading from panel to panel just seemed off or disjointed. I couldn't "buy into" what Spencer was telling me as I was more jolted by how he was using "timing" so poorly trying to tell it.
Though I get that that is a personal OCD thing that others may not feel the same about (Slott does that same thing at times)
torchsong wrote:To be 100% honest, I lost interest in it. The artwork never really clicked for me, and I suppose I'm too jaded by Lost now. Seems every show, book, etc. is built on a "Look at the weird new twist we'll explain sometime down the road...or not!" paradigm. Normally, I don't mind that, but you have to give me solid art to keep me coming back OR you have to throw me a bone and let me know what's going at least a little bit.
This is a case where reading interviews and having Nick answering questions in the CBR forum has helped, at least for me. If I didn't know that he had a plan and everything important was already "written", I may have jumped ship as well. Without that knowledge, some of the things that have happened I would think were just for shock value and then later he'd have to make sense of it. Now though I know if I just keep reading it should all make sense, and personally I'm getting enough answers to keep me happy but that is definitely a personal preference.
About the art .... I think it's gotten better and better and I like the style. I guess the coloring is my favorite part about it. This book definitely does a bait and switch though. The covers are breathtaking and realistic, then you open it up and it's a drastically different style.
I just re-read the entire run and I have to say this book does reward re-reads. I think everything, including what is going on in the last three issues, is a lot more clear to me and I'm even starting to see possible endgame situations, or what Nick has in mind. I guess we won't really know for another 70+ issues or so if he stays true to his 100 issue guess.
To those who didn't like the art, I think this was Joe's first professional comic. As I was reading the first few issues I did notice the art was much rougher than it is now. I think he's grown from those first issues and the whole book just looks more polished now than it did before.
Anyway, just wanted to possibly give some who gave up on it a new reason to try it again
