Powell, Laurence & Lambden, Oliver – Tales From the Flat #5

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Tales From the Flat #5

Hey, didn’t we just have a huge fight scene� Oh well, everybody who read the first few issues knew that something was coming with that giant robot. And one quick complaint before I start: guys, if a character, like say the female character, isn’t in the issue at all, don’t put her on the cover. A minor thing, I guess, but it always bugged me back in the day when Marvel or DC pulled that crap. Anyway, this is another solid issue, although there seems to be some danger of this falling away from the solid character work that they built up to start the series and have things instead devolve into a series of fights. That’s the pessimist’s view, anyway. The optimist in me says that these fights were both handled extremely well and had to be coming after the buildup, so why not blast away at the first opportunity� The neighbor, James, is annoyed when he hears a party happening to which he wasn’t invited. As his way of crashing it he decides to literally crash his giant robot through the wall, resulting in one serious fight scene and one hefty explosion. The pinups from various artists in the back is a nice touch as well, it seems they’re doing a good job of building up a little fan community. I suppose the next issue or so will say a lot about where the series is headed, but for now it’s still smartly written and drawn, not to mention a total blast, so what’s to complain about?