Spaceknight Saturdays: Versus Gay Pah Ree

Here we go. The penultimate chapter of a story starring Spaceknights working for an Empire that looks nothing like the Galador from Rom, fighting Dire Wraiths that look nothing like the Dire Wraiths from Rom, recently escaped from Limbo though they never call it that... You know the drill by now. Why the words "Limbo" and "Neutralizer" aren't allowed is a mystery to me. Or maybe Starlin has something against Caribbean dance competitions.

In the wake of their battle with a Deathwing, the Spaceknights try to go back to Galador to get the Neutralizer and fight back. What they don't know is that it's apparently been destroyed by a saboteur's bomb (don't believe it for a second).
To make things worse, the Dire Wraith(s) have turned two more planets against Galador, including the Pah Ree who originated the bomb in the previous panel. The Pah Ree. And Limbo sounds too stupid, I suppose. It's very distracting, but then, Starlin revels in distracting me:
Advice: If you're going to replay Arthurian legend in your space opera, don't have the characters talk about Arthurian legend. There's hitting the nail too squarely on the head, and then there's THIS.

So the Spaceknights's armors are kind of cracked and dented from their last battle and they're asked to stand down. The Colonial Vanguard, an army of Spaceknight wash-outs will carry on. How this is considered strategically sound when the most powerful weapons of the Galadorian Empire have just had their metal butts handed to them, I don't know.
Yeah, that's what I said. Tristan is convinced that if they do take part in the battle, he can lead them to the Dire Wraith using his precog abilities. Why exactly the Knights feel the need to patch their brains into Tristan using Scanner's telepathic abilities, risking her brain damage, isn't clear. They just stay behind Tristan anyway. How can they concentrate under the full brunt of his emo genes?
And he leads them right to... the Wraithknights!
Ok, let's see that battle then be done with it.

Comments

Invid said…
Is... Is that a wooden handle on that axe?
Anonymous said…
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Great comic! Great blog!
Siskoid said…
Cost me 100 bucks Canadian at a local comic book store to get the entire collection (I only had 4 issues at home). I doubt they would have raised the bundle price if I'd asked for those 4 as well.