2019 review: The end of the world is nigh; yet they're still playing politics on Earth (sound familiar?). After the sense shattering end of Letter 44, Volume 3: Dark Matter, in space - it's all change, and now the aim is to be one of the saved... to be a survivor!You can usual tell when an entire series has been planned in advance because they just flow so well, and this is a great example. Charles Soule and Alberto Albuquerque just keep the suspense going at just the right levels and intensites...

I'm curious as to what the religious thread results in. Seems pretty clear the humans keep putting emotions ahead of logic, but no one has enough of the puzzle to make rational decisions. The builders, being who they are with their purpose, surely would have figured out how they need to approach their part of the mission. starting volume 5 pretty soon here, and volume 6 arrives tomorrow.

This one moved in several directions that I never expected with most of the important feeling action playing out on Earth. Interesting as the Clarke astronauts (those still alive) have the potential to change everything if the visitors will play along, but while they don't seem to be under threat (yet), they aren't being allowed what they need to affect events on Earth either. Carroll proves ever more dangerous, ever more deranged, and ever more obviously entirely about establishing himself in a...

In the midst of war and potential alien invasion, President Blades must make a difficult choice on behalf of the human race. Meanwhile the crew of the Clarke join forces with the alien Builders in an attempt to thwart the incoming hostiles. It happens to every series sooner or later: Letter 44 hits the wall with its first mediocre book in Volume 4: Saviors. Not that I disliked it but not enough happens here and what does unfolds far too slowly. Gomez and Pritchard’s origins were interesting and

Letter 44 Vol. 4 Savior collects issues 22-27 of the series written by Charles Soule and art by Alberto Jimenez Albuquerque. What was believed to be an asteroid plummeting toward Earth was infact a vessel containing Major Drum. Drum reveals to the president he was spared to save only 666 human lives. Meanwhile the crew of the Clarke has upset the alien civilization who has teleported them out of reach. This arc was mainly plot building as we approach the end of the series. We are slowlyfilling i...

This comic just gets better and better. Politics, scifi, superheroes, religion - what other items can the author fit in here? And when I say better, I mean a convoluted mess. What was a story on two fronts has now mutated into at least five featuring Blades, the Clarke crew, Drum, a journalist who interviewed Carroll and finally Carroll himself. It's a bit much. The story has more twists than DNA and, even in the past, some of those twists proved to be just fillers that were left behind. For exa...

Thus far I have found this series intriguing. In fact, I've been very excited when each collection is released. I certainty don't feel that way about other series. If there's too much time between releases I start picking apart the writing and the plot and the excitement is gone. Volume 3 may have been the peak for me because this book just tempered that excitement. Volume 4 finishes with anger and a few tropes. The series has played the dangerous game of "the twist" fairly successfully, but the...

Fifth challenge ("read a book that starts with the letter S, for Slytherin") in the Winter 2019 Magical Readathon, created and hosted by G (aka Book Roast)I really enjoyed this volume! In my opinion, it has a great mixture between buildying the plot leading to the final events and exploring more about the characters. I'm very excited about the sequel!

Finished it under 24 hours. Love this series.

Probably closer to a 4.5.Charles Soule keeps at it and Volume 4 brings Letter 44 more or less back on track in my book. The story telling can feel a little rushed at times, and especially the back and forth between the 666 and other ideas felt a little tedious. Although it's not only negative, I actually really love this series and I think this is a great volume. I love the fight between the humans and the aliens whilst both are trying to help each other meanwhile. The art is great as usual, and...

After a rather, shall we say, explosive third volume, the fourth slows things down a bit and maybe explains a thing or two about the Builders, those mysterious aliens that no one quite seems able to understand. They aren't the enemy here, at least not directly, but what they offer in return ain't all that good. And that's not getting into what ex-President Carroll and his ongoing efforts to maintain control of, well, as much as he seems to be controlling. It's a bit of a course-change here, and

After being surprisingly impressed with volumes 1-3 I was a little let down with this one. The story almost feels like it’s picked up by a different write and taken a hard left. I understand it’s a comic.. but there’s some things that are stupid even for a comic. Its hard to review further because of spoilers but I wish that the strength of volumes 1-3 had continued through here

This series is starting to tail off. Not much really happens in this volume, despite all the bluster. The artwork is really getting annoying--restrained one minute and crazed the next, without any apparent rhyme or reason to it. And there still seems to be at least one more volume to go before it all wraps up. I guess I should see it through to the end, but not as excited about that as I once was.

The tone in this one shifted. The religious imagery and rapture-esque plotlines were really off putting and the sci-fi elements were just cookie-cutter ideas from other (better) stories. I'm disappointed.

This book has always walked the line between being a loving homage to the work of Arthur C. Clark and being a little bit of a swipe. With the end of this volume, I'm sad to say it's well and truly left homage in the dust and broken through into full-blown rip-off land.(view spoiler)[They have totally copied the ending of Clark's '2010’, by having aliens turn Jupiter into a second sun. (hide spoiler)]In light of this, I'm done with this book. Buh-bye...

I love this series, but this didn’t blow me away like the others. I am still very much invested in the story though.

Soule is extremely ambitious. This book shuttles back and forth in time, going back to the origins of Project Monolith, and also deals with an asteroid crash, World War III, a resurrected prophet discussing the end of the world who wants to bring 666 people from the earth, and a journalist who flees a shelter in Nevada where ex-President Carroll lied about the destruction of an asteroid. We get some insight into who the Builders are--they are trying again and again in repeated time cycles to ero...

It's crazy twists and turns in this volume but couldn't state any of these in this review. In fact, since volume 1, there's so much to spoil. I couldn't churn out a proper review that will put spoilers in. All that I can say is that I've been turning pages since yesterday and I'm now through volumes 1 to 4. Can't wait to find out the next.

So this is where I found out that the series wasn't finished, that volume 4 wasn't the wrap up I thought it would be. My mistake, of course, and it probably colored my view but oh well.There's a missing crew member who has been missing and alluded to since the beginning and we finally get an explanation of sorts here, but it's a weirdly played out story that made me go Huh? And the strange reasoning behind what happened is kind of a letdown considering it took this long to get to the story/expla...

In which an intricately constructed house of cards tumbles down, it being perfectly timed such that one character's good intentions over here unwittingly cause things to go horribly wrong for someone else right across the solar system, whose response then ripples back with similarly confounding results, and so on. I especially enjoyed that the one thing which threatens to destroy Earth's astronauts before they even meet the super-advanced aliens is the dread spectre of... monogamy!