Sweet Taste of Freedom
This is not a typical comic book, because it´s presented as a narrative story, reminding the one of an actual book, only ilustrated (this has happened before in other Crossgen books), it consists in large wide spread panels by Cheung with the narrative of Marz, no dialogues, just words telling the story of 4 fugitives, fleeing the shackles of slavery in the Raven kingdom, lured by the promise of hope and freedom that Ethan and Ashleigh are constructing in the Tournament Isle, a new sanctuary for the lesser races - this is a very beautiful and touching story, with excellent choice of words by Marz, proving that he has lots of talent, and allowing Cheung to deliver awesome scenarios, beautiful landscape, showing the escape of this tortured souls - though this was a very good issue, it served the purpose of showing how the lesser races will fight for their freedom, it also served to show the ingenuity of this plan, because there´s no actual help or an organized task to free these people, they´re on their own, so I hope that Ethan and the others realize the need to establish a port of some kind in the Raven territory, that will allow a proper escape to the lesser races who want to be free of slavery.
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