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I have to admit the banter owns me a bit by now. We've got our main cast and we know who they (what they do, where they came from) at least in all the important ways. I love how Annie is never completely replaced and can't be, because of this setup. Which is so original.

And on top of it we begin to see the ripples. How the main cast is effecting everyone else with their actions. Those working for the corporation. What is going on overseas. How the universe, at large, is actually interacting with the components.

You can literally feel the story drawing itself tighter and tighter. ( )

A lot of suspect science in this volume, and it got a bit melodramatic in places. The good characters continue to be interesting, but the badies are as one-dimensional as ever.

The art is as amazing as ever, but some of the science exposition had photo-realistic images with clashed with the rest of the comic.

Three stars is probably being harsh, but this is definitely the weakest volume yet in my mind. ( )

Okay, I'm going to admit it: I didn't like Strangers in Paradise, which is probably Terry Moore's best known series. But this one looked less soap-opera-y so I figured I'd give it a try, and I wasn't disappointed. The is the story of a woman who somehow (I missed the first few books) gets infected with an alloy that could change the world... or destroy it. At this point, she's figuring out what happened while trying to stay alive. I'm intrigued enough to look up the rest of the series.