I hope this story gets more exciting soon. Don't get me wrong, Denise Mina is creating and writing a good story here. But, this particular issue, slows the pace down to a crawl. Basically what's going on is, we're trying to stop the "Empathy Engine" that was created in the last story arc. The problem is, they were tricked into creating it. It seems there's a third place that souls can go, besides heaven & hell (a classic Black Sabbath album). The ruler of this realm tricked them into building the empathy engine, thinking that it would make the world a better place, since everyone would feel what everyone else was. But they were dead wrong. The empathy engine is too strong, and normal humans can't handle feeling what other are feeling. Hell, they can barely handle their own feelings. So anyways, they give up, commit suicide, or basically their soul is sucked out of them, and it goes straight to the third realm. The other problem that they hadn't counted on, is that, the few people that seem to be immune to the engine, are really just extensions of the engine. So, should they leave the general vicinity of the engine, they themselves become living breathing empathy engines. Thereby spreading the 3rd realm's powerbase over the whole globe. And with that many souls to draw upon, he could potentially become stronger than heaven or hell. But this issue has little or no action. Basically it was just all the supporting characters standing around talking about what it is they think they should be doing next. And John has basically given up. He thinks that anything he touches dies anyways, so why should he try to fix this situation? But, Angie has come up with a plan. It involves the Praexis, and the paintings that they were all looking at in the art gallery. But, again, no action this issue. But, by the looks of things, that should change next issue. Here's hoping so. I almost fell asleep reading this issue.
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