Issue 10 is not really an installment in the
ongoing series that signals progress so far.
True, Gabriel and his army have experienced a
sad loss, and true there are soldiers that have
been captured and are being held against their
well for, as of yet unspecified motives, but
this issue lacks any of the real forward motion
that I'm used to with "Drafted." One of the
particular interesting flaws of the issue is
that the cover leads you to believe that we're
due for a startling revelation with a character
we were told is dead in the last issue, and yet
she's not even in the issue at all. And any of
the big reveals I was hoping for is nowhere to
be found. Most of the issue is reliant on
characters standing around basically doing
nothing with Gabriel learning to be a leader by
giving a rousing speech and talking about the
large possibility that mankind is doomed under
the alien threat with the former president of
the United States.
The only real
potential this issue holds is the shocker that
the soldiers are assuming command over their
warriors and are supplying mechanical artificial
limbs giving them no regard or consideration in
notifying them beforehand. The wounded we see in
this issue are now almost practically mechanical
bipedal soldiers, and there will definitely be
hell to pay when they awake to discover that
most of their body is now reliant on alien
technology that they could possibly lord over
them to keep them fighting and submissive to
their whims. There's really nothing beyond
looming in the landing deck and bemoaning the
loss of the world, and it's really all just a
filler issue to set the stage for the big battle
that will ensue in issue 11. The art is as
fantastic as always, it's just sad that it's not
much of a fun follow-up to the big one on one we
lost in issue 9 and will likely lose in issues
11 and 12. |
