Eternal Warrior Scorched Earth

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Eternal Warrior Scorched Earth

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This is the first Eternal Warrior story since Incursion in 2019. It's nice to see familiar faces that haven't been seen in years, the big problem with characters being out of circulation for this long is that they can be either stereotypical or simply out of character whenever they do resurface. One thing I did appreciate from this story was that it was able to give us something that's been lacking in the Valiant universe for several years: character development.

The basic story is Gilad goes off to fight an old foe who's returned, leaving the Geomancer Tama with uncle Armstrong to babysit. While he's gone, Tama becomes a public superhero and social media influencer.

Overall, this was a story that developed Tama. Although parts of her arc seemed a little hokey, it was a satisfying and memorable conclusion. It seems a little lazy when an all-powerful villain from the past who's never been mentioned before suddenly appears, but it's also difficult to properly execute those types of concepts when the characters don't appear that often.

This probably wouldn't have read well as a mini-series, more than 25% of the book has little or no dialogue or narration. Personally, I'm not a fan of several pages in a row with no text whatsoever. For instance, in one part Tama and Armstrong are just talking on the living room couch for several pages while Gilad silent fights his way through a hellish realm on alternating pages, it probably would've read better if they'd just put the dialogue over the fight scenes. It seems like they were relying too heavily on the art to carry the story.


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