The Stop Button

Besides a little framing scene at the beginning of the issue, Brubaker manages to stick with Beezer (his protagonist) for the entire issue. Brubaker layers the narrative a lot with a flashback catching the reader up to the environment suit girl being out of her environment suit.

There’s a real lack of drama–she and Beezer meet another psychic or visionary or whatever they’re called (or aren’t called), but the scene’s short and somewhat pointless. Brubaker’s shifting his focus to the girl, which would be fine–he’s already established Deadenders shifts that focus–except she’s so poorly defined.

Maybe he’s got a better story in mind for her, but he’s holding it back way too much. There are a lot of good possibilities in the issue and he doesn’t explore any of them.

It’s sort of a bridging issue, sort of a treading water issue. Still, it’s fairly good stuff.