Echo #7 - Abstract Studios

Terry Moore is just a fantastic story-teller. I love his work. He's not moving Julie's story along very fast, but that's ok. He's introducing other characters that I think are going to affect her future, or vice verse. This issue Ivy Raven, from the National Security Branch, makes contact with Dillon. She's trying to talk him down, to get him to turn themselves in, but . . he wants some confirmation as to what's happened to Annie also. That's information that, I think, either Ivy doesn't have, or isn't in the position to share right now. And this guy that we see on the cover? He's on the road right now, hitch-hiking, I believe, to the point in which his path will cross with Julie and Dillon's. And the end of this issue, Julie and Dillon are talking about what they should do next. Outside it's raining and storming. Julie says that Dillon is making her vibrate. Next thing they know there's a huge explosion outside. The power goes out, but they're not affected. However when they look out the door, for the monkey that's been chained up to the post during this whole storm . . . they find that he and their other friends have been blown apart with body parts and intestines strewn everywhere. This doesn't bode well for their innocent plea. Anyways, I love the way Terry crafts these tales. He has a way of really drawing the reader into the story. I really feel that this series is starting to come into it's own. At first, I'm sure, there were comparisons to Strangers. Julie, after all, does have more than a passing similarity to Katchoo. And Terry's art is exactly the same as that series, and in black and white. But with 7 issues under his belt now, I think that this series has come into it's own as a separate entity. Which it obviously is. I find myself eager to read this title every month, and wanting to know what's going to happen to Julie and this 'suit' that she's wearing. Terry . . . thanks!