It all comes to help make this book so friggin enjoyable. The Great Warrior’s simple bean-like design helps make the more elaborate demons all the more terrifying with their reptilian snots and smoky eyes, and it helps sell the danger and horror of these things.There’s a cartoon vibrancy to the story, a focus on movement and gorgeous backgrounds the ink lines are thick and brushy, but they also compliment Trillian Gunn’s color scheme, which favors a lot of watercolors and dream pastels-inspired work. Now, Flores throws in 30 Rock ready side-flashes, some really fun match transitions, and an overall keen sense of staging and pacing. “Help Us! Great Warrior” has always been charming, but I feel it’s sometimes struggled to break out from the single-page comic strip gags of its initial run. #Trillian gunn seriesFlores obviously grew up reading a lot of manga, watching a lot of anime, and playing a lot of Final Fantasy, so the battles aren’t so much superhero slugfests, but these, like, far more choreographed numbers with the characters in frequent ballet stances holding their weapons.Īs the series gets further and further in, Flores seems to grow more assured in her storytelling capabilities. (This time for real reasons, not because some obstinate beast knocked a slice of cake out of her hands.) And there’s the foreboding sense that the world is ending, but overall, this book seems quieter, more intimate, and I think that helps sell this book’s heart. There are dynamic and vibrant action sequences as the Great Warrior jumps into the melee. Yes, it’s brimming with energy and action, and you feel the images moving and breathing on the page: the characters spinning and the monsters stomping. In this issue of “Help Us! Great Warrior,” Madeline Flores answers some questions and turns up the investment level to 11.įor all the craziness and insanity, “Help Us! Great Warrior” has struck me as a remarkably quiet book. We’ve seen the villagers blindly trust her and throw parties in her honor, we’ve seen her hold her own in a fight, but we’ve never seen anything to give her motivation, or, more accurately, to explain her lack of motivation. Over the course of the series, we’ve learned thousands of years ago, the Great Warrior was actually the hero who separated the demons from the human world and I think it’s here that we realize we don’t know all that much about the Great Warrior herself. Since Hadiyah first showed up at the start of this series, the Great Warrior has had a red-flag-raising reluctance to join in this epic quest to close the demon portal. I don’t think there has been any other hero so reluctant to answer a call to action than the Great Warrior. While Leo and Hadiyah butt heads over Great Warrior’s responsibility to the realm, the mystery behind why Great Warrior doesn’t want to fight the demon currently threatening her world deepens. Illustrated by Madeline Flores and Trillian Gunn
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