This issue is mostly talking heads. Churilla toggles between Cooper in the real world, his CIA nemesis in the real world, and the Glut. The structure helps the issue move, since most of the talking is repeating things from the previous issue. There’s actually a few pages when the CIA nemesis talks about it, then Cooper asks the doctor if the CIA nemesis is out there talking about.
But the structure’s strong enough Churilla’s able to hide seventy percent of the issue is complete filler. The art’s the key to that pacing. When the Glut breaks through to the real world, Churilla’s art is what makes the sequence work. He’s able to do slimy and icky without being gross; the art has menace, but not enough to be unpleasant.
It’s a filler issue and not a bad one as filler issues go.
The teddy bear remains a rather adorable character.
B-
CREDITS
Writer, artist and colorist, Brian Churilla; letterer, Ed Brisson; editor, James Lucas Jones; publisher, Oni Press.
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