The Woods, Issue #21 begins with a flashback to nine months earlier, when Maria was planning out the new city, and everything was going well. Now she's dead, and Sanami, Karen and Sander have returned to the school/city to reconnoiter the Horde and the students that joined them. Nothing. Gone. They return to New London, where the Bay Point students have built a tent village. They have a little political power, and at least they haven't been swallowed up by the Horde.
I love the coloring by Josan Gonzalez, in particular how the many flashbacks have a duller tone to them. With a lesser colorist, the multiple flashbacks would have been confusing. The bizarre landscape, flora, and fauna illustrated by Michael Dialynas are always a treat. I've been reading this title for less than a year, but I feel like I've lived on this fantastic moon, orbiting a gas giant, orbiting an unknown star.
The feature of Issue #21 is the relationship between Calder and Karen. The comic flashes back to when they were together, intimate. The flashbacks give new impressions of what Calder's motivation was in initially siding with his brother. It is a little Days of Our Lives, with a teenage love triangle, only science fiction and in the middle of a war. Calder and Sander, two of people in this love triangle, do decide something at the end of this comic. I won't spoil it, but it leads The Woods in a new direction.
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