How far behind are they on this book if the cover says 'Oct. 08'? That was almost 6 months ago. Was this a mistake, or was that when this book was supposed to come out? I'm just wondering. Anyways, this issue, Jae Faerber takes us back into the past and tells us the story of Celeste's and Colonel Comet's romance. It happened during the five year gap that took place between issues #31 & #32. Not literally, but . . the story jumped forward. Apparently there was some super-villain in the past , Epoch, that creates and then feeds off of time anomaly's. One was affecting the present and when Doc Noble and company went to investigate Celeste ended up getting sucked in. She got pulled back to somewhere in probably the late 40's to early 50's. That's where she met Comet. They ended up teaming up, fell in love, and then got married. It's all seems kind of 'wham-bam-thank you m'am' to me, but . . I guess that's just the kind of girl Celeste is. Anyways, she ends up spending almost 4 years there before Doc finally finds her. But eventually he does. She doesn't really want to leave but the displacement in time is starting to affect her body and the cellular level. Really, she has to leave . . or die. So, when she returns to the future, she finds Comet living in a nursing home and decides to take care of him herself. He's in his 80's or so, after-all. Later we find out that this whole story is being relayed to Hunter Blackthorne by her because she know that he was behind the woman who impersonated Amy Wells, and infiltrated their home. It seems that this woman, who was Epoch's hostage in the past, got sent to the present instead of her when Epoch was defeated. She blamed the Noble's for what happened to her and because of that . . . and Hunter's anger over Celeste killing his wife . . he ended up helping her. Basically she's trying to explain to him that what she did she did out of love. Much as what he did, traveling to a cross-reality to find another version of his wife, he also did out of love. And when she killed her, she did so because she begged her to do so. She was in a lot of pain and her transformations were out of control. She wants Hunter to back off, and he tells her he will do so. Shortly afterwards we see the Gaia Noble gets granted an early parole. Her first act upon release? To lay a lip-lock on Doc, right in front of Olympia. That should prove interesting next issue. Anyways, Yildiray Cinar is still the artist on this title. I think his stuff is getting better. In the flash-back scenes he uses a different style that's kind of reminiscent of the 'King'. A bit. Overall, I thought it was an interesting book. Really though, it's just a big soap-opera. But that's ok.
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