Dull
I'm just about done with this series. Seriously. I just don't care anymore, what with the plot jumping here and there and nothing of real interest occurring. There's no laugh-out-loud moments, no earnest comedy, just things happening that, more or less, force the plot forward.
So, immediately after an issue that preached to us about family and how important it is, we're faced with an issue that essentially goes against all of that, with almost everyone fighting with one another. The one conflict is substantiated, but the other is never explained, and it makes half the book feel off kilter as it is. The other is a little more understandable, but there isn't enough development or interaction here for me to really care.
This book also takes on the bookends approach of having the bigger threat develop more at the start and end of the issue, but the ending having little to do with it. And, while I haven't entirely minded it in the past, at this point it feels so flat that it simply frustrated me to see it there.
The issue ends with "the beginning of the end", as the characters claim, but this is the end of the line for me. This book had such potential, but it fell flat on its face. Maybe next time, Fraction...
