The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: The Coffin
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Hester spent the almost the entire first issue establishing Ahmad as an unlikable person. Dying and being resurrected as a plastic superman has been the best thing for him. But this issue, when Hester’s got to write his dialogue, his narration, as this new good person… he can’t do it convincingly. Instead, he writes all…
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Hester changes it up again this issue, to similarly good results. This time, he doesn’t just spread the issue out, he actually lets time pass off panel, which he didn’t really do in the second issue. This issue, for example, doesn’t open with a resolution to the previous one’s conclusion. Instead, Hester takes a little…
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The pacing on the second issue is completely different from the first, which is both good and bad. On the good side, there’s almost none of the Hell stuff in this issue. There’s some, but it’s so visual, I can forgive it to get to see Mike Huddleston draw some demonic sphinx. But on the…
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A lot of the issue is spent in Hell. Well, at least a third of it. There’s a lot of visuals of Hell and those are cool because it’s Mike Huddleston and I love Mike Huddleston. Unfortunately, the stuff in Hell is totally unimportant. Even when it seems like it’s reaching a point of being…