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Rick Shepherd
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Downloaded this to my Mother Box (heh!) this morning as soon as I saw this thread (thanks Stephen Churay for the heads-up!).
Really enjoying the character interactions, as well as the tech design or the ships/suits/environments. I'm currently on a bit of a 'space fiction' binge (bought a cheap download of 'Wing Commander III', and trying to catch up on Yamato 2199 eps online), so this series is real tonic. Just kept flipping through the pages to see what would happen next... ...until I realised I'd burned through it in a matter of minutes! Talk about a 'page-turner' - how often does that happen, eh?*
*Actually, a lot, recently - finished ploughing through the first 8 Alpha Flight issues on Comixology, in one sitting. Clearly, I need to learn a bit more restraint - but it's so gosh-darned hard!! I've got a very tasty box of chocolates on my desk that I'm grazing on, and even that's taking longer than getting through these books. Although in fairness, it's all good - a great workout for the imagination, and better for the waistline than candy...
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Brian Lewis
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This is terrific art. The series really is looking great!
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John Byrne
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I really like that we jumped right into the action, getting deeper into the mystery we were left with at the end of the first issue.•• This is about as close as you are likely to see me "writing for the trade". Knowing that this book is going to be collected, and given that it is a miniseries, and therefore not even intended to be read starting with the second, or third, or fourth issues*, I decided to have the first page of this issue be literally the next page after the last of the previous issue. Hopefully this will help to make the collected edition as "seamless" as possible. __________ * I do, of course, hope that those who may have missed the first, or second, or third issues would still be able to find copies, and read them. This just isn't the same kind of ongoing storytelling to be found in SUPERMAN or FANTASTIC FOUR or even NEXT MEN.
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Steven Legge
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Very brisk pacing, I've read it twice now and it does not feel like 21 pages have gone by! And I'm loving the cliffhanger endings!
edited a 'lil typo
Edited by Steven Legge on 14 February 2013 at 9:53pm
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Wallace Sellars
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I bought, read and enjoyed this second issue yesterday evening.
My wife happened to walk by as I was rereading it tonight. She saw Eddie
Wallace and said, "Oh, that's the book that John Byrne put you in. How does
John Byrne know what you look like? Has he seen a picture of you?"
I gave a short laugh, and replied, "He gave the the character my name as a
last name, but it's not really me."
"Oh," she said again. "I think he's seen you. Look at him. Look at the hair.
That could be you."
I'm sure she meant a younger me.
Anyway, the fact that she thinks the character resembles her husband may
just help me convince the lady to give THE HIGH WAYS a try!
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Ronald Joseph
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Got mine today! Love it! Had a genuine "WTF? Damn you!" moment at the end. A whole month I have to wait...sheesh...what to do, what to do...
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Brennan Voboril
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Love this series so much I am buying the issues and the trade! I can't help myself.
Cliffhangers are GREAT!!
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Wallace Sellars
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Had a genuine "WTF? Damn you!" moment at the end.
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I'm not sure which way to take Megan's last words on the bottom of page 19.
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Stephen Churay
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Love this series so much I am buying the issues and the trade! I can't
help myself.
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You know. JB, you create the only modern comics I'm willing to double
dip on. And at this point, I'm doing it on everything you create. I see it
as doing my part to keep more books coming. It's sad that we live in a
world that decides how successful a book is by it's collected edition.
But, if that keeps you employed, it keeps me in good reading. That's
worth every penny.
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Wallace Sellars
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I hear ya, Stephen. I'm triple{/I] dippin' on some stuff!
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Ronald Joseph
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I'm not sure which way to take Megan's last words on the bottom of page 19. Ohhh, I took it to mean that there's more brilliance coming our way next month. Heh. :)
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Tim O Neill
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That final two page cliffhanger is a stunner!
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