honestly issue #3’s writing felt kind of disappointing

———–GLORY HOUNDS #3 SPOILERS————

There were some good moments- Alex’s dad reveal and him talking to the group was subversive & the tension was welcome. The fight scene on the rooftop was enjoyably corny and was very hype. The walkway and interrupting it with Khamaeu being spotted (good use of rising tension)

But the amount of words spent just expositing was exhausting. It feels they spend twice as long explaining what’s going on instead of doing anything. The bar scenes dragged on and I was skimming over the text by the end.

They do sometimes hard-cut to skip scenes that would just be a formality. Why don’t they do that more?

Also maybe they’ll do something interesting with it later but choosing to make Alex IMMORTAL was baffling to me. Why? Why would you do that? The stakes for all future fights in this SUPERHERO comic just took a nosedive. Are they gonna make it so Dusk Hound is the actually capable fighter while Spot has to use cheat codes to keep them all alive? I could kind of get behind that honestly. Not where I was expecting this corny gay superhero story to go.

Maybe it’s just the writings pacing. I remember #1 being good with it but it’s certainly less here.

There’s still plenty to like and it’s clear a lot of effort and love went into it- The music, art and scripting are some of the best I’ve seen in a VN. I just wish the writing were more focused.