The Precinct is a sort of follow-on from Bill Willingham’s Legenderry series and the mini-series that followed that – at least it’s set in the same world even if it’s not featuring any of the same characters. Issue #2 came out last week and there’s a scene where members of the Alchemy Academy (surely Alchemical Academy would work better?) appeal to the Royal Senate to be allowed to have a representative on the Senate. They ask this because, they believe, the Senate relies too much upon steam powered mechanical inventions, whereas the Academy deal with the divine and the spiritual.
During the debate, this happens:
There’s a couple of things that jumped out at me reading this. First, the top panel:
Classified? Who the hell mentioned anything about classified things? That piece of dialogue comes out of nowhere.
The other thing is the first speech bubble on the page (in the panel above) and the last one spoken by a different character. Here they are, side by side:
This is either sloppy writing by Frank J Barberie or sloppy editing by Rachel Pinnelas or Joe Rybandt.
Either way, it doesn’t fill me with a great deal of confidence for the forthcoming Dejah Thoris series which is written by Barberie.
While I watched the final two episodes of Supergirl before Christmas, with work and family and everything else I didn’t get the chance to do any write ups of them which is a shame – the final episode in particular was a cracker. The Kryptonian assualt, Cat Grant figuring out Kara was Supergirl, and Henshaw revealing he was the Martian Manhunter all fed into a great mid-season cliffhanger.
Crisis on Earth-Prime 