A confusing little mess.
Creative Staff:
Story: Christopher Cantwell
Art: Martin Morazzo
Colors: Miroslav Mrva
Letters: Clem Robbins
What They Say:
Luna comes face-to-face–sort of–with the Flying Woman through a recently discovered diary, just as she and Bill Meigs have forged an uneasy truce. But the EON-DEF security team is hot on their trail, desperate to eliminate anyone with knowledge of the secret and troubled Accelerator project. Will the Flying Woman’s diary provide the answers that Luna is looking for?
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
She Could Fly had a decent opener and worked better in the second issue as some important things were revealed about what’s going on, making it easy to get into the groove of. With this issue, She Could Fly has a lot of different things in motion and Christopher Cantwell can’t quite balance them all so that it flows well, at least within a monthly design. As a trade, I imagine this would just segue into things nicely. There are a few different things happening and not much in the way of recap or reconnect so but we do get more great artwork from Martin Morazzo. I continue to like the way he puts his character together and the overall flow of the layouts for a smooth read.
There’s a lot of quick hits at the start with different areas being touched up, especially with Arclight on fire and the government come with a warrant to figure out what’s been going wrong here as their projects have not come together right. It’s interesting enough but it lacks enough lead-in between issues to remind me enough about it. What we do get is a look at Luna dealing with Bill and Verna, which is its own complicated mess. The dynamic between Bill and Verna is one that really makes the issue as a whole kind of cringey because he’s just so dismissive of her even after seeming like they had connected better the last time around. Bill’s even more dismissive of her this time as events play out and he makes more and more decisions about their future, which again leaves you unsure of how much you read into his coming around to her before.
Where we do get some forward momentum is in Luna being able to take about the flying woman and what she’s discovered about her, which leads to Bill acquiring the documents out of her safe deposit box. This has him supremely excited as she accomplished in a year what he couldn’t in ten and with just a state college education, again reinforcing who Bill really is. While Luna gets essentially cast off during this, especially after unloading about herself to Verna, it just gets worse as the opposing forces are after him more clearly while Luna’s being dragged to a faith meeting of some sort. It does work well in that she learns more about her family and how events shaped them, her father in particular, but it’s a side story that didn’t feel like it helps to move things forward with the main story just yet.
In Summary:
She Could Fly loses some of the momentum from the previous issue but has me hopeful that it’ll pick it up pretty quickly again. Luna’s in the mix with everything now but also finding time to understand her parents and family more, which can come at the weirdest times in real life like this, while the artwork for the book continues to be solid. There’s plenty going on with all of the story threads but I’m feeling a bit lost amid it all at the moment as this one just didn’t feel like it was grounded enough with the previous one.
Grade: B-
Age Rating: 16+
Released By: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: September 12th, 2018
MSRP: $3.99
