His character was the only thing that held my interest on the page for most of the comic. There's a detective whose nana practiced Voodoo, so when he was given the case he threw some bones down and did that sage nod thing that lets us know that he knows somethings up.
The story is kicked off by a death that shouldn't have happened. There's some sort of deadly game of musical chairs (one of four seats), wherein they each take turns at being in a position to die as a sacrifice if the market crashes. You get to read various letters and diary entries to explain some of the past stuff, but my eyes started to cross after a while, and I'm sure I missed out on the point of a lot of it as it faded into the roar of white noise. There's a whole bunch of diagrams and walls of text to help you dissect what's going on.īecause it's Hickman. The bargain has been passed down through the generations which had led to what seems like a very incestuous family tree for these folks. All of this is represented in the global stock market and their ties to it.Īgain, the details are only alluded to and nothing is explained. Old money families with names you'll recognize have somehow bargained with something for wealth and power.
I'll try to give you the gist of it, but be warned this is Jonathan Hickman at his finest, so it wasn't until the last issue that any of it started to somewhat coalesce into something other than gibberish.
Whether or not it will make any actual sense remains to be seen. I will not change it to eviler because I like the way more evil sounds. I looks as though someone has come up with a fairly convoluted way to make the 1% seem even more evil No, Grammarly.
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