To me, it seems as if this story is unraveling very slowly. But, I would assume, to create a character from scratch, along with his supporting cast and background . . would take some meticulous planning . . if you want it to be coherent and believable. Right now I feel as if I'm in the point in the story where I'm starting to get the gist of the various characters . . even if I don't remember their names. We have this teenage girl, Rachel I believe, who has just moved to the area with her single father. She's come across Simon a couple of times. He seems to like her, and wants to protect her. But, in fairness, that does seem to be his predilection, to protect the people in the surrounding area of where he stays . . . his neighborhood. Then there's the ME who, after actually seeing Simon on her table, seems to be intrigued by the anomaly that he is. I believe her name is Beth. There's also a detective . . I don't remember his name . . who used to be associated with what I assume is a criminal organization, but now it seems as if he's trying to atone for his sins. He appears to be a "good" cop, and it looks like he's trying to use his knowledge of this organization against them. Beth also seems attracted to him. He has also come in contact with Simon, and seems to think of him more as a brother than an adversary. Something I've noticed about Simon, he seems to be able to "sense" who's good and who's not. People with good hearts, seem to have nothing to fear from him. Then there's this organization. We don't know much about it, other than seeing some faces. This issue, Simon finds the warehouse, or whatever, where he was "born". We see that this group uses science and magic to attain it's goals. We see the beginnings . . at least how Simon remembers it . . of how he was born. And we see him in action again. Apparently when he came looking for this place he set of some sensors or something. When he tries to leave, the group has sent some men to take care of him. Simon makes pretty short work of them, but leaves one standing. "I'm going to let you go. But tell your boss I've got the book now. I know what he's up to. Tell him . . . he'll see me soon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . well? What are you waiting for?" Also, with this issue, this group seems to be hatching some sort of plan. Don't ask me how this makes sense, yet, but they've hijacked a custom soap company's delivery truck, and have substituted the deliveries with their own. Later on we see a lady getting ready to use one of the bars, and there appears to be a little demon inside of it. But really . . that's all we know about the plan so far. I love the way Steve Niles is unfolding this story, and it's characters. The artwork of Scott Hampton's is incredible. He set's the perfect tone for this story, and the series. Since we're only on issue #6, I would definitely recommend going out and finding these books. Like I said, there seems to be a methodical roll-out of this storyline. So I'm expecting a big pay-off here, pretty soon. But, even if not, the book is worth the look just for Steve and Scott's talents.
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