Reviews

Volume 2 is sort of a closure for the story from vol 1. We are moved across time 50-ish years in the future. One of the God creatures that showed up bears uncanny resemblance to missing captain Malik. With the appearance of living God local colonies have rebelled against the Inner Worlds and the control they exercise over the colonies. Transformed into the religious zealotry, colony will become the place of reverence of Malik as deity and huge space station will be constructed around his God-body frame.

But this back-pedal to the times when these bodies were revered is something Inner Worlds cannot allow because God corpses are become very rare and this brings forth the lack of resources for overall technology of the Inner Worlds and also consumption of the God-meat that does seem to bring benefits to the consumer.

And so, as it is always the case, central government starts an ill-advised adventure to gain access to this specific corpse. Adventure that might bring civil strife into colonies and wider.

Spies, special services, religious zealots, schemes, murders and assassinations - everything can be found in this book.

Some of the questions are answered in this book (I know lots of reviewers of vol 1 were put off because all details weren't given, and I agree vol 1 was very careful not to disclose much) but also lots of others are raised - what was the attitude when these huge bodies were found in the first place? What was the crisis that caused the industrialization of resources cannibalized from the bodies? I guess we will have some of the answers in future volumes.

Art as was case in the first book is excellent and entire dynamic is very cinematic.

Again, book ends on the cliffhanger, but not as big as last one. I gotta admit this comic did capture my attention and I am on a lookout for future volumes.

Highly recommended to fans of space-opera.