Wow!!! What a fantastic book. This issue is by Brad Meltzer and Gene Ha. But it's not Gene's usual work. This is something . . . . different. Something . . . special. Roy and Mari were in the Watergate building when it collapsed. They saved all the people, but they couldn't get themselves out before the structure fell in to the Potomac. So they're buried under all this rubble. But they're only a few feet apart. Mari is seriously panicking, but Roy is trying to keep them both calm. He wants her to tap in to her animal Totem, but she confesses to him that she hasn't been able to for months. Ever since their fight with Amazo. Where he's at, he feels like he's holding the structure of the building up on his shoulders. So he's afraid to move to much. Also every time the rubble settles, their space becomes smaller and smaller. So he passes a couple of arrows to her, and asks that she digs them out. She's afraid that she'll drown, but he talks her in to trying. She goes for a couple of minutes, but then she comes back to him. She thinks they're to far down and they'll never make it. That's when, for some reason, Roy realizes that his sense of up and down are backwards. He actually had Mari trying to swim in the wrong direction. With that information his spirit is renewed, and he's sure that they can make it. Which they do. Two things really got to me this story. First was the interaction between Roy and Mari. It was . . . perfect. I mean, to write this, you'd almost have to think that the author himself, had been in a situation similar to this. It was incredible, and moving. Then the art. Gene pencilled it in little jagged boxes. Kind of like the space that they were stuck in. The lighting and color set the perfect mood. And the way he structured the boxes when Roy realized that his equilibrium was upset was . . . brilliant. This has been an astounding series, right from issue #1. But I would have to say that this was the best issue yet. And considering the previous issues that I'm comparing it to, that's saying quite a bit. Fantastic book.
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