Wetworks #10 - Wildstorm

Ok, here we are on issue #10, and already Whilce is nowhere to be found. Except for the cover. Isn't this what happened with the last incarnation? I was really looking forward to seeing him on this book. And now he's gone again. Now we got JM DeMatteis on the scripts, and Joel Gomez on the pencils. The books actually has an ok look to it. But . . . without Whilce . . . it's just not the same. So our team is looking in to what's going on with Mother One. She's having some kind of inner conflict that's causing her systems to shut down. Ab Death looks in to it, and figures out that when she died, a little piece of her Rachel Rhodes soul didn't make it back in when she was resurrected. With a little piece of Ab Death's soul, a spark if you will, Mother One is functional enough to travel to the Deadworld with Ab Death and Dane. They're trying to find the missing piece of her soul. Everytime we have a story with Ab Death, we learn a little bit more about this Deadworld. But then, so does he. Long story short, they find the piece that's missing. And it is the Rachel Rhodes part, as we suspected. But the choice has to be Mother One's, as far as which way they travel from here. She can either absorb the soul, and go back to the real-world. Or go with it, and on the wings of an angel, literally, take the trip to the next plane. She decides for the latter. The last page is exactly the same as the first, except we see Rachel instead of Mother One. Same conflict. Same hopes and dreams. But rather than it ending with her death by confusion and tearing herself apart, it ends with someone or something else grabbing ahold of her and taking control of her voyage from here. So basically what this is telling us is that Mother One's story is nowhere near done. Like I said, the book actually looks ok. Some frames are nice. And some frames seem kind of . . . . basic. Or maybe simple's a better word. But I guess we'll just have to go along for the ride and see where we go from here.