Sunday, August 14, 2016

Empress #5



Empress, Issue #5 is the fifth of seven issues, and it sees the main characters separated and in disarray.  The children are going to be sold as slaves, but unfortunately for their would-be slavers, they have the children locked up in a room full of seemingly useless old junk.  Captain Havelock, the Empress, and Tor are on the run, with the Emperor hot on their tail and a tribe of savages about to use them as a sacrifice.  I bought the variant cover.

I say the same thing in almost every review of The Empress, and I'll say it again.  Stuart Immonen is awesome.  This is just an all-around classic yarn about a family trying to escape a tyrannical father.  There are a few things I wonder about, like how all this story gets wrapped up in seven issues.  I think that there must be an Empress 2 and perhaps even an Empress 3 and beyond.

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