Now that he's gotten a little bit of a breather . . Michael has decided to look into this 'cult' a little bit. You know . . the Order of Purity, that's recruited him to be their voice and warrior. The problem is . . the book he's reading has been written by all the various people that have been given the Suit of Sorrows and the swords over the years. And most of them . . seem to have been driven to madness. Michael seems to have staved off the madness, and the 'voices' . . so far. But as he's reading this tome, he starts to notice a pattern. ' . . every sixth line of every sixth entry of every sixth chapter . . ' He's started to notice the pattern in the messages, but . . I don't think he's noticed that he's just utilized the number of the beast to find them. The messages throughout all of the stories though seem to be pretty much the same. The Order recruits their soldier, but as he gains power they become suspicious of the demons driving him. Eventually they all seem to fall into the abyss of madness, and their 'handler' has to ' . . end their suffering.' Or at least that's what they tell themselves. But basically they have to get rid of the soldier they can no longer handle so that they can replace them with a young, naive recruit. One that hopefully they'll be able to control better. However, the cycle just keeps repeating itself. Isn't that the definition of insanity? Even Adrian, the guy who's supposed to be helping him, has been given the means to take him out should the need arise. Anyways, he reads through this book over and over again . . for 6 days. And after all of that he's been able to decipher a clear message. 'Kill them before they kill you.' I believe Michael may have started on the road to madness. I enjoy Fabian Nicieza's stories, and I think he's doing a terrific job with this book. My only problem is . . if it stays on this path . . it doesn't seem to have much of a future. However . . it's early. I think if we wait to see what's going to happen, we'll probably be pleasantly surprised. I'm also enjoying Ramon Bachs pencils. I'm actually glad that the Azrael character this time isn't as intimately tied in with the Batman mythos. There's enough history with the Order of St Dumas, and the Order of Purity, that I don't think it's no longer has to be dependent upon Batman for legitimacy. But . . it still needs readers. And being tied with Batman did do that. So . . I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Azrael #6 - DC
Now that he's gotten a little bit of a breather . . Michael has decided to look into this 'cult' a little bit. You know . . the Order of Purity, that's recruited him to be their voice and warrior. The problem is . . the book he's reading has been written by all the various people that have been given the Suit of Sorrows and the swords over the years. And most of them . . seem to have been driven to madness. Michael seems to have staved off the madness, and the 'voices' . . so far. But as he's reading this tome, he starts to notice a pattern. ' . . every sixth line of every sixth entry of every sixth chapter . . ' He's started to notice the pattern in the messages, but . . I don't think he's noticed that he's just utilized the number of the beast to find them. The messages throughout all of the stories though seem to be pretty much the same. The Order recruits their soldier, but as he gains power they become suspicious of the demons driving him. Eventually they all seem to fall into the abyss of madness, and their 'handler' has to ' . . end their suffering.' Or at least that's what they tell themselves. But basically they have to get rid of the soldier they can no longer handle so that they can replace them with a young, naive recruit. One that hopefully they'll be able to control better. However, the cycle just keeps repeating itself. Isn't that the definition of insanity? Even Adrian, the guy who's supposed to be helping him, has been given the means to take him out should the need arise. Anyways, he reads through this book over and over again . . for 6 days. And after all of that he's been able to decipher a clear message. 'Kill them before they kill you.' I believe Michael may have started on the road to madness. I enjoy Fabian Nicieza's stories, and I think he's doing a terrific job with this book. My only problem is . . if it stays on this path . . it doesn't seem to have much of a future. However . . it's early. I think if we wait to see what's going to happen, we'll probably be pleasantly surprised. I'm also enjoying Ramon Bachs pencils. I'm actually glad that the Azrael character this time isn't as intimately tied in with the Batman mythos. There's enough history with the Order of St Dumas, and the Order of Purity, that I don't think it's no longer has to be dependent upon Batman for legitimacy. But . . it still needs readers. And being tied with Batman did do that. So . . I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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