Today’s Comic> The Tekwar Chronicles #8

Is Jake being attacked by a medical droid from Star Wars?

William Shatner Presents The Tekwar Chronicles #8

Bluewater Productions (January 2010?)

I couldn’t really review this without spoiling the story and since any use of spoil sets off ComiXology’s warning anyway I won’t bother trying not to. In between flashback of Jake’s life and the usual misused narration boxes Jake crashes the satellite (with help from virutal Gomez), confronts Bascom, and finally finds his wife in a coma who, if the art is to be believed, is a dead ringer for Beth.

This comic was terrible. Scenes are thrown together, some speed through, and is there really a hint that Jake was about to have a threesome with Warbride and Beth or am I just thinking that little about this comic. Not that it matters since even a clean celebration is interrupted by Bascom trying to kill everyone until Winger saves them. Going into the next book, Bascom thinks Jake is dead, Winger is on the “team” and Kate is alive and real.

And I really don’t care. The first arc was good with minor complaints, but this one really went downhill between bad art, a colorist who has done much better work elsewhere, the usual bad narration breaking up the reading flow, and what could have been a good story buried in the rubble.

I will not be picking up any further issues, and it’s a shame. It’s a great concept both in series and story, even with the rather bloody deaths, but it just doesn’t come together very well and that’s the real crime here.

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