Rematch
This has been a long run for Ethan - his rite of passage in the Tournment Isle, becoming a prisioner of the Ravens, meeting the girl of his dreams, returning home just to watch his older brother getting killed by the hands of Bron, going back to Raven territory to avenge his brother´s death, discovering the truth about Ashleigh´s origins, vowing to help the lesser races, stopping a war and now, something long due expected, the rematch with Bron - though this was an interesting issue, I believe Cheung failed in delivering a good battle between Bron and Ethan, because instead of creating new moves or giving the fight a different dynamics, he chose only to replicated the same scene over and over, panel after panel, with slight changes in each one, but the rest of the book was very much well penciled by him, showing details and a lot of characters (perhaps that´s why he couldn´t put the same effort in the battle scenes - this is something that I didn´t understand, since Pelletier helped him doing a single page - page 10, showing Exeter talking to King Dane and the others, why not share more pages with him, allowing Cheung to focus on the battle?) - also, another thing that annoyed me a little was the fact that after the events of last issue, why only the Herons approached the Tournment Isle again? Why didn´t the Ravens landed also, knowing that their king might have been there? This was a little strange. But, despite these bad parts, I do believe this issue was filled with great dialogues, especially the ones between Bron and Ethan, also it was good to have some closure in the war (at least for a couple of issues), leaving now room for Ethan and Ashleigh to make their dream of transforming Tournment Isle into a sanctuary for the lesser races.
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