Tynion loses a lot of momentum with all the characters. He’s got two things going on–he’s got the kids who went into the woods and he’s got the school. The school has kids and adults. He splits the issue into two and a half–the kids in the woods, the adults at the school, then less on the kids at the school.
The school stuff is sociologically interesting. A nebbish principal letting a psychopath jock of a gym teacher pull the strings on him. It’s probably not going to go well, but it’s also very different than the kids in the woods who are encountering alien creatures.
Actually, the issue doesn’t have enough alien creatures–they’ve stopped attacking the school for some reason.
There are just too many characters moving around, especially with Dialynas not being so great on distinctive faces.
It’s still working, it’s just not working smoothly.
B
CREDITS
Writer, James Tynion IV; artist, Michael Dialynas; colorist, Josan Gonzalez; letterer, Ed Dukeshire; editors, Jasmine Amiri and Eric Harburn; publisher, Boom! Studios.