Creative Staff:
Story: Andy Diggle
Art: Aaron Campbell
What They Say:
Holly learns she’s been playing for the wrong team, Weaver discovers the truth about the night his father was shot, and together they edge closer to locating the source of their uncanny powers. Andy Diggle (Snap Shot, The Losers) continues the tale of Dominic Weaver, the man with six billion borrowed skill sets… a con-man with supernatural abilities, drawn into a global conspiracy!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
The second season of Uncanny has moved in familiar but unpredictable ways as it’s dealt with Weaver’s story and the plan to go up against Deacon in his search for The Source. We got a lot of time with Deacon’s background story the last time around and that certainly helped to flesh things out a bit, and it also solidified the “team” that Weaver’s with now in doing what they need to do. it brought them to a decent place in going after Holly and bringing her in so she can use her abilities in order to get deeper to what they need, namely in finding Weaver’s father. It’s not exactly a safe thing to do in trying to coerce Holly to work with them though, considering what she can do once inside Weaver’s mind.
But it does play out well in the way Weaver lays out his intentions, which can be classified as threats as well, as she realizes that they’ve basically got her where they want her. Particularly since anything she says about what they did in getting her, they can sow enough uncertainty with Deacon when they get near him that odds are he’d just eliminate everyone. And with Weaver’s associates there to watch over him while she digs through his head, you know she’s not going to get too creative in there. Which makes it good that her rummaging around ends up revealing only a little bit of information, and that she doesn’t go where she shouldn’t, so there’s some minor level of trust. But what they do get is a kind of sliver of information that’s just enough to reveal where the old man is. And that, in turn, leads us to the best part of the book.
Since Weaver’s wanted to find him for some time, to understand why he was left in that car all those years ago, discovering that he’s now essentially a disturbed homeless man under a bridge isn’t an easy thing. There’s some decent protective elements in play among those that live there, but there’s some beautiful heartful moments there as well as Weaver gets him to realize that his son has found him. But it’s in the rooting around in his mind that Weaver makes the big discoveries, understanding why he was “abandoned” all those years ago after his father tried to protect him but had his mind shattered with a forceful intrusion. While it does give Weaver what he needs in regards to The Source, kept secret from the reader of course, what we get is his greater understanding of what his father did to protect him, and while it doesn’t lessen his own agony and pain in the years that followed, it softens his stance towards his father as he knows he’s not responsible for it, that it wasn’t a choice on his part to abandon him. And that’s a great moment for Weaver to have after all that’s gone down.
In Summary:
Uncanny continues to move along well as we cross the halfway mark and are moving towards the finale. There’s some good informational pieces picked up here and a solid exploration of what happened with Weaver’s father that brings some sense of closure and resolution to one of the foundational aspects of our lead character. The exploration of his father’s mind is definitely an interesting one, and it does open up other questions that can be expanded upon, so there’s plenty of areas it can still go to. Everything is moving closer to dealing with Deacon and there’s some good stage setting about to be put into place. This is an interesting group of characters overall, and getting Weaver’s story fleshed out a bit more definitely helps a lot in making him even more interesting.
Grade: B
Age Rating: 16+
Released By: Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: July 1st, 2015
MSRP: $3.99