“Do you play?”
“I’d rather play “How long have you been breaking the law you brought me here to enforce?”
Keep reading for a review of Far Sector #3.
Except for the last two pages, this issue was mostly about giving the reader more info about the people in The City Enduring. It did not (surprisingly) (spoilers) give us more info about the murders in the first issue. But it puts those murders into a bigger picture.
I’d assumed that people who used Switchoff (which actually cancels out The Emotion Exploit and switches people’s emotions back on) were a small group of lower-class junkies. Jo assumed the same thing, but she finds out this issue exactly how big that group is, and who’s in it. The situation is much more complicated than we thought. I really liked the one comment about memories and emotion:
:…memory is meaningless — worse than meaningless — without emotion.”
“Worse? How?”
“Now we have no regret. Without that, how can we learn from our suffering?”
However, the person speaking is operating outside the law from a position of power, so their motivations are still suspect.
My knowledge of American history is pretty abysmal, but the page where Jo is remembering a historic event, I’m sure most of that’s referring to the riot at Manzanar, where an uprising that was at least partially caused by corrupt police ended with police firing into a crowd of protesters and killing two of them.
Jo is on the side of law and order, but when the local law isn’t really following the law anymore (or in the case of dispersing riots, following it way too damn closely) she’s got a big decision to make.
On a smaller scale, we also got introduced to Jo’s @at assistant @ICANHAZEARTHSTUFF01, or CanHaz for short. I love that she’s addicted to Cat Memes, and that she pulled strings to get Jo her fanfic fix. And I love that Jo reads fanfic. I zoomed way in and still couldn’t read what she was reading, but she said the chapter had a deliciously explicit rating, and there was some talk about “the guys” so I’m going to pretend it’s a Gotham Nygmobblepot fic and leave it at that.
As for the art, it’s beautiful as always. The jewel toned colors are gorgeous, I love how all the readouts and displays cast glowing highlights everywhere, and everyone’s expressions are perfect.
