Some thoughts about The Wild Storm #9

The past is being revealed.

Jacob is trying to put his team together while Jackie King will have to investigate more about her own organization.

Yeah, I'm just used to this at this point.

As usual Warren Ellis offers another installment where slowly, and I mean slooooowwwwwly developes the plot he has been planning since the beginning. Is all about making the characters prepare for upcoming actions and I hope that those actions are satisfying enough because at this point all of this seems like pure set-up without a proper resolution to compensate for it.

In fact, the most interesting part of the issue is an action sequence that takes place in the past about a samurai fight, is really cinematic in its pacing and storytelling and showcases some of the best scenes in the issue. There are even solid character moments here and there but they just don't compensate for how decompressed everything seems.

Jon Davis-Hunt remains in art duties and he remains wonderful thanks to his beautiful and perfectly depicted story that gets the best from every scene, particularly the already mentioned action segment.

I'm seriously thinking into getting this just by trades because reading this issue by issue is simply not working. Then again, that's kinda my job.