Some thoughts about Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death #5

Poison Ivy will learn that having a family is harder than she was expecting.

The children that Pamela has been raising have quickly grown up and they're ready to be independent but she still thinks they're not prepared for the real world.

Okay, some things are working here but I don't feel like they're particularly interesting.

Amy Chu continues her story where he developes the plot-point of Ivy's family all grown up, they're now teenagers and they're certainly acting like that due that they want to go to bars and similar places. This is not a badly executed segment since it presents some usual aspects of what happens in such environments and Pam's girls act that way you would expect, Pam's characterization continues to be solid.

Now here comes the complaint and this is mostly about what I was expecting: I wanted to see more of Ivy's maternal side. She shows some aspects of it here but they're not as well explored as I would have hoped. I think this would have been better implemented in the girls would have been kept as children and thus Pam would have been forced to raise them properly, I'm pretty sure that would have presented a more interesting and insightful side of her. Wasted opportunity really.

The fact that her children don't really have individual personalities doesn't help matters. Also, the mystery about the murder is still going on but is not something that compelling either.

Clay Mann and Stephen Segovia share the pencils and their work is pretty consistent over the course of the issue with a distinctive style.

We're close to the end and I don't think the final chapter will impress me but let's see.