Mar 01, 2022
This was a fantastic, creative, and wonderfully dark series about the choices and compromises a man must make in his life. Remender really doesn't pull any punches here and doesn't flinch at giving Adam Osidis the ending he deserves.
The narration trick Remender's employed throughout the story is doubly effective in hindsight. For most of the story we're meant to read Adam as the flawed hero and when all is revealed following the events at the Springs of Zhal, we see nothing more than a man trying to justify his own actions, while blaming everyone else for his failures. A man who resembles the Garils the Mud King, more than his own father Zeb.
There's just not much more to say about Opena's work here either. It's phenomenal, outsta
nding and the Hollingsworth colors, particularly on the Excellent Librarian this issue, were stunning. There's one panel in particular, featuring a despondent Adam, stewing in his choices, being embraced by Jevalia that cut right to the core of the book and will stick with me for a while.
I would have enjoyed spending another dozen issues in this world, just to see more of the characters and setting fleshed out, but what we got was great nonetheless. Highly recommended. more