Maybe Aaron just doesn’t know how to end issues, because he has more problems with this one.
He layers the narrative beautifully. The opening continues the previous issues soft cliffhanger, but it then goes into flashback as Dashiell recounts his week. Only these events aren’t in the previous issue, so we’re back in the first issue’s time frame but before its soft cliffhanger.
Aaron’s still introducing characters and laying down the ground situation; it’s a great way to do exposition without being boring. Everything’s vibrant and urgent, thanks in no small part to Guera’s art.
But this issue’s hard cliffhanger is also set in Dashiell’s flashback. Aaron apparently doesn’t care the reader knows–or should know–he comes out okay.
It cuts the flashback between two issues; the next issue is set, at least partially, during the first issue’s present action. It’s masterful, but exceptionally unfulfilling for a monthly comic.
CREDITS
Indian Country, Part Two of Three; writer, Jason Aaron; artist, R.M. Guera; colorist, Lee Loughridge; letterer, Phil Balsman; editors, Casey Seijas and Will Dennis; publisher, Vertigo.
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