Lost Fantasy #13 // Review
The walls between worlds had recently broken-down. There’s some concern about the nature of stability in the world. Henry is being taken into a very dangerous location with a kid who has massive power...and his own book. Two titles collide in Lost Fantasy #13. The writing team of Cur Pires and Timmy Heague bring Lost Fantasy into contact with Fireborn in an issue brought to page and panel by artist Luca Casalagnuida. Two characters from two different edges of a fantasy Multiverse come together in a larger lease satisfying crossover. It may feel like a little too early for this type of crossover for both series. But it's still a lot of fun.
Henry and Jin could only be taken so far. They had to jump out of a moving vehicle. In the sky. Into a portal. When they walked through, they found themselves in the streets of a contemporary city. I think it might've been dressed, kind of weird for the current era of most people didn't seem to notice. So it was going to be a little bit difficult for them to find what it was that they were looking for. Until they heard the screams.
Action flows across the page relatively well. There is kind of a lot of plot architecture that has to cling together in order for everything to make sense. And certainly it does seem to be making some kind of sense. But the overall flow of the action seems kind of weird. Especially in a light of the fact that so much of the action portion of this issue is shared with this week's issue of Fireborn. It's a really tricky to have two titles so closely intersect. Particular we have they're both coming out on the same week. Pires and Heague make it work quite well.
The art team is being asked to put quite a lot on the page. And it has to be modulated extremely well. From architectural shots of a perfectly ordinary, modern city to ridiculous battle between ridiculously magical forces. And then a lot of nuanced trauma here and their interest place between it all. And though none of it necessarily hits the page with impressive force, it certainly seems to be modulated quite well, and it move it across the page with an admirable efficiency.
The visual reality of the issue intersect quite well with similar work done in Fireborn this week as well. It's fun to see the two titles intersect. This is the old veteran versus the young kid who it happens to be attached to a great deal of power. The potential of this could have been a little bit more intense were it allowed to play out over the course of a couple more issues. As it is, everything seems just a little rushed. Just a little frantic. And that does play well into the overall the rhythm and pacing of both series. However, it doesn't do it justice to the potential between these two characters.
