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Review: Ever After #12

By Philip Schweier
August 2, 2017 - 04:24

Perhaps it would have helped had I been able to read #11, but #12 was anti-climactic. I have no idea how sorcerer Bobby Speckland defeated the three social outcasts who turned their high school into a magical prison dimension and enslaved the student body for their own purposes. Issue #12 is little more than an epilogue, in which a magical cat brings down the walls isolating the school in its nether dimension in which thousands of years pass in a matter of days.

As the issue starts, the players – field agents of magic – are either A.) having sex with a ghost, or B.) battling supernatural creatures, which they then turn on one another. After that, it’s a matter of what becomes of the survivors of the crisis. In my opinion, the only characters that seemed to matter were Speckland and the three villains, unlikable though they may have been. Everyone else was secondary at best, with an inflated sense of importance.

I had enjoyed the original premise of the story a few issues back, but the way it finished seemed cheap and superfluous. I don’t recommend it. I can only hope subsequent stories are better. But that's for another reviewer to determine.

Moore’s artwork was okay, however he fails to build much distinction among characters. Sometimes I'm not sure who they are, and I can only presume it will be explained is a future issue - one I will NOT be reading.

Rating: 0/10

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