Seriously, I’m not going to finish reading this title. I know it ends in a couple of issues. However, I’m out.
The one redeeming character in the entire series gets handed the oldest plot twist. It’s not good writing its shock value and didn’t even need to happen.
355 made her exit already. It was dramatic, heartbreaking, and a great way to exit stage. Why bring her back in the story just to kill her?
I’m really disappointed in how this turned out. Someone else can read the ending, because I’ve already finished.
For some reason, I just started picking up the trades and reading them again. I’m only up to the fourth but this is where I get stuck on the series all the time with the Safeword storyarc. I like Vaughan but there are parts of his writing that feel too cold and calculated to me. Safeword reads like Vaughan trying to explain how clever he’s been in the first year or so and pointing out how we all missed Yorick being suicidal. I haven’t read the issue Chris is talking about but I’ve flipped through it. It’s another one of those moves that feels forced.
It’s this way for me across most of Vaughan’s writing. Ex Machina and Runaways are technically good books but I can’t find or connect with the heart of them. I can’t find something to latch onto in his stories.
This week issue 59 finally comes out. I’m kind of pissed because if they would have stayed on schedule, this would issue 60. Instead they didn’t put an issue out in October. Bastards.
355 had to leave the first time so that Yorick could make the choice to go to her. She died because the world they inhabit is a dangerous place, and it was just a matter of time that somebody died. I’m guessing Yorick won’t make it through the end of the series.
LEAVE MY CUTE BALD ALTERNATE-REALITY HUSBAND ALONE!
