The Visitor #5

[mateo107]

This finally came out a year since the last issue. I can barely remember what was going on in the first 4 issues, but this is the first one that actually seems to establish ties to the Valiant universe, Dr. Silk and 4001 Japan. The new art team sort of matches the style, although it's a little sloppy. The last 2 issues could be the best part, although it probably should've only been 3 issues.

[Sunlight on Snow]

This finally came out a year since the last issue. I can barely remember what was going on in the first 4 issues, but this is the first one that actually seems to establish ties to the Valiant universe, Dr. Silk and 4001 Japan. The new art team sort of matches the style, although it's a little sloppy. The last 2 issues could be the best part, although it probably should've only been 3 issues.

Yet no mention of the Livewire energy that New Japan's AI is made of (according to Fall of Ninjak and early Rai).

3 issues max. The first 4 could have been easily told in just 1 but the writer insisted on some sightseeing around NYC.

[SwiftMann]

MJ Kim's art was boring. Soo Lee's is just not good (and I dug Fantomah). Add to that the 13+ month gap and decision to just hamfistedly throw in some Valiant universe references after being ridiculously subtle for four previous issues and this book remains skipable nonsense.

Also, when is this taking place? Trying to figure out the chronology with the name drop of this incredibly ridiculous version of the character.

[grendeljd]

Oh, is this out now? I had heard it was coming but didn’t realize it was already out… I will probably grab a digital copy at some point just to see the series through.

[Sunlight on Snow]

Oh, is this out now? I had heard it was coming but didn’t realize it was already out… I will probably grab a digital copy at some point just to see the series through.

Yes, and the 6th and final issue will be out next WED, too -- Jun 16.

And in one of his final interviews (for VEI) Matthew Klein mentioned The Final Witness isn't completely "off" the table either.

[grendeljd]

Oh, is this out now? I had heard it was coming but didn’t realize it was already out… I will probably grab a digital copy at some point just to see the series through.

Yes, and the 6th and final issue will be out next WED, too -- Jun 16.

And in one of his final interviews (for VEI) Matthew Klein mentioned The Final Witness isn't completely "off" the table either.

Oh sweet - that’s a good move to just get them out there, I think. I’m sure the momentum was already long-lost for this title anyways, so why not just publish in quick succession.

And that’s good news about Final Witness too - that was another title I was looking forward to trying out, if it was to ever see print.

[Dallow Spicer1]

The first 4 issues of this series were a pretty slow burn so the ending of this series really needs to justify being a 6 issue series. I wasn’t invested enough in this to re-read the previous issues so maybe I was doing it an injustice.

I thought it was ‘ok’, the Dr Silk reference seemed to come out of the blue. So I’m guessing that some of the Japanese contingent are psiots then with the whole red scarf strangling thing?

The art was decent apart from some (not all) faces seemed quite manga-esque.

3/5 - pretty average so far, hoping for a big finish!