Story does not get any better for our heroes. While still at the mercy of the Pillar for their next destination it seems that there are some side-effects to all of this parallel-universe-hopping. It seems that Pillar plays a very important religious role in some of the worlds but how is it possible when the very first Pillar device was built by Grant's team?

Excellent story, becomes somewhat convoluted as it progresses. Hopefully some of the lose ends will be tied in the follow up books.

Recommended to all fans of SF action/adventure stories. ( )

I am a bit disappointed. The first volume is amazing, but this one starts in a different timeline than the ending of Vol. 1 and it annoyed me... How did they get there? Where are they? How much time has passed? These are some questions i had from the very beginning. But don't get me wrong, this book is good, i just had different expectations. The artwork is incredible, the ending was pretty intense and really made want to read the next volume to find out what's going to happen next (and perhaps i'll get my answers). Sure, i'll buy the third volume. ( )

I love this series so far. ( )

Black Science, Volume 2
Welcome, Nowhere
Author: Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera, Dean White
Publisher: Image Comics
Date: 2015
Pgs: 128
Dewey: 741.5973 BLA
Disposition: Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX
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REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Summary:
The lost in the eververse crew dives further into the Onion trying to find their way home through realities of wonder, beauty, and horror. Darkness, danger, and death...and a alternate dimensional counterpart or ten wander through, usually with their own agenda. Will the family survive? Will the deaths in furtherance of their goals be worth the price paid? Is Kadir growing a conscience in the face of a duty thrust upon him? Welcome to the Onion, the layers of the Eververse beckon. Don’t trust yourself...it might not really be you.
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Genre:
Image Comics
Comics
Graphic Novels
Science Fiction

Why this book:
Because I’ve been staring at the multiple volume set everytime I went into the library and decided to give it a try.
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Favorite Character:
As much as I hate to admit it, Kadir. He stepped up to the duty thrust upon him, for his own reasons, of course, but still.

Favorite Scene / Quote:
Who’s a sleazy shitbag now? You are. You’re a sleazy shitbag. Fair enough. I loved that exchange between Kadir and Shawn in the open to Volume 2.

Hmm Moments:
So a retinue of Kadirs serving Mr. Blokk and delivering to him a hand held Pillar that he wants to use to make himself Pharaoh of the Eververse. And 2 Grants go toe to toe fro the right to steal the handheld Pillar. Confusing, but cool.

Confusing, but I thought Nate was fighting back against not-his-Dad when he kiled him. But it was Pia. ...anyway they’re all going to need therapy when/if they get home. ...of course, if they get home, will it actually be home or just one close enough to fool them into thinking that it’s their home. Arrgghhh.

WTF Moments:
A giant seal/hippo steed chasing the Dimensionauts.

Meh / PFFT Moments:
I keep mistaking the First Peoples techno shaman for an older McKay. Visually very similar faces.

About sick of the deus ex alterna kidnapper parents who keep showing up just short of a climax in the story. Of course, alt worlds and all, they could be alternates of alternates that we’ve seen before and therefore, be entirely new, but the same every time they show. ...my head hurts.

So...you really need a scorecard. The team of Dimensionauts is original Kadir, Shawn, Rebecca, Pia, and Nate, an alt reality techno shaman who they kidnapped from his world, and dimensional counterparts of Sara, and 2 Grants. And a big WTF on whatever is happening with Chandra, seems like she has one of those symbiotes that the monkeys were carrying around on that last world stuck in her head.

The Unexpected:
The sloth bears in the woods that the kids fall into.

Dammit, I don’t want to like Kadir...Prime Kadir...first Kadir...Kadir 1...whatever.

And Kadir’s real motivation...forget that stuff about me liking him.

Why isn’t there a screenplay?
Because movie audiences in a popcorn environment wouldn’t want to invest the headspace to follow this many dimensional alternates. It would get too confusing. Might work as a miniseries on a streaming service.

Casting call / Dreamcasting:
Brad Pitt or Matthew McConaughey as Grant McKay.

Rudolf Martin or Michael Shannon as Kadir.

Donald Glover as Shawn.

Zach McClarnon as the techno-shaman.
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Last Page Sound:
On to Volume 3.

Author Assessment:
Hanging in. Not as good as 1. But 2’s are never as good as 1’s. Let’s see how 3 goes.

Editorial Assessment:
Tighter editorially. Wish the editor has pushed the artist on the faces a bit.

Knee Jerk Reaction:
glad I read it
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This story spends most of its time in one dimension elaborating on the various iterations of The Pillar and its dimension-hopping users and adherents to the infinite-possible-worlds concepts it represents. The characters continue to be fleshed out as complex, flawed, very realistic people trapped in an impossible situation. As critics have pointed out, this is Jonathan Hickman‰ÃƒÂ›Ã‚ªs run on the Fantastic Four turned up to 11, and I am loving it. ( )