Hi Everyone.
So after waiting all this time for an ending to This Blood Is Thick, I'm not really that impressed with it. Apart from some not so great dialogue and pacing, there are a few particular things that bothered me.
The place that Batwoman and Batman are fighting has somehow changed since the previous issue. The hole that they fell into has changed place from what looks like the side of the ship(The Serpents Wake), to a place big enough to land a helicopter, as displayed by the fact that there's a helicopter shown. Also, it's not totally clear to me what happens at the end of this scene.
The scene with Alice/Beth and Hawkfire/Bette doesn't carry on from the previous issue, but instead reenacts it slightly differently. It's not totally clear what Hawkfire does to cut Alices Handcuffs, Alice somehow knows Bettes real name and codename, and she's speaking in her black speech bubbles throughout, even when talking sense and acknowledging family members, which has been done in white speech bubbles in the past. Also, since the previous issue, Alices blue gloves that are chained together have changed to green gloves with handcuffs over them, apart from one panel when they're suddenly pink.
The scene in Gotham Police Department Headquarters doesn't carry on from the previous issue, but replaces a lot of it.
In a previous issue, Jacob tells Catherine he thinks he has a son, but when Bones claims he is Jacobs son, Jacob just denies it. Some more time and details given to this would perhaps have been better than it just going by so quickly like this.
In a previous issue when the Murder Of Crows are being introduced, the only one referred to as being a pilot is Bohaskha Zlenko, and yet he is not the one piloting the helicopter.
Batwoman gets shocked by Batman appearing behind her, when she has been perfectly calm at his sudden appearances before.
All this and the fact that some things were not covered that were supposed to be in the conclusion to the arc. A quote from J.H. Williams:
"There was SO much stuff going to happen, some crazy reveals, the reveal of Bones’ past, just how he connects to Kate and Beth Kane, and a confrontation with Jacob Kane and his Murder Of Crows. Batwoman having the final throw-down with Batman. We were going to give large plot points on how Beth became Alice. Bette Kane a.k.a. Hawkfire shocked and horrified by something Alice/Beth does during the rescue mission. Ultimately bring the entire family to some form of a beginning to heal, and how Maggie would fit into all of this. Chase, seeing the horrors of what Director Bones is doing, was going to cause her to make a radical decision that would forever change her life."
We didn't get any kind of knowledge of how Beth became Alice, and she didn't do anything to horrify Bette/Hawkfire. Most of the rest of these plot points can perhaps arguably have been covered, but some of them seem a little unclear whether they were done correctly.
Have I missed any other problems with it? Let me know if you spotted any.
Scarlotte.
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