the giant red lens is awfully like the red egg thing that was broken in the vision of Buffy’s betrayal. Something about the colour, is it blood red or setting sun? Red is the colour of the Twilight symbol on the cover of Radon’s book.
And of the scythe.
Renee playing dumb tourist schoolgirl is pretty funny.
And a decent-sized hint that she is/was American. ("Clueless Algerian exchange student" isn't really enough of a cliché to fool anyone.)
Final page, did Joss/Drew just make his very own ‘Woman in a Refrigerator?’ His very own black woman in a refrigerator?
I've seen people ask that (and, as a not very frequent comics reader, had to look it up) and while I do think it looks (so far) like a pretty cheap way to set up something for the next issue (was all of that characterization of Renee just so he could kill her off?)... I must say I don't buy it completely. Renee's not a helpless victim; like Aiko, she has shown herself to be both resourceful and competent, but she's in a dangerous profession. The fact that she's black shouldn't make her invulnerable. Personally, I'm more interested in how come not ONE of these supposedly experienced fighters thought to keep look-out when they entered the bad guy's lair... Christ, even *I* never fell for that hologram trick back when I used to play Duke Nukem 3D. :-)
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Date: 2008-05-09 11:13 am (UTC)And of the scythe.
Renee playing dumb tourist schoolgirl is pretty funny.
And a decent-sized hint that she is/was American. ("Clueless Algerian exchange student" isn't really enough of a cliché to fool anyone.)
Final page, did Joss/Drew just make his very own ‘Woman in a Refrigerator?’ His very own black woman in a refrigerator?
I've seen people ask that (and, as a not very frequent comics reader, had to look it up) and while I do think it looks (so far) like a pretty cheap way to set up something for the next issue (was all of that characterization of Renee just so he could kill her off?)... I must say I don't buy it completely. Renee's not a helpless victim; like Aiko, she has shown herself to be both resourceful and competent, but she's in a dangerous profession. The fact that she's black shouldn't make her invulnerable. Personally, I'm more interested in how come not ONE of these supposedly experienced fighters thought to keep look-out when they entered the bad guy's lair... Christ, even *I* never fell for that hologram trick back when I used to play Duke Nukem 3D. :-)