I mean, what happened to the police – were they killed, taken prisoner, recruited to the cause or ferried over before the bridge destruction? It’s not totally convincing how things got to this extreme point. There’s a brief flashback showing crowds of people and police rioting and Scarlet mentions a “final curfew” before she ordered the bridges destroyed but it still feels like this post-apocalyptic landscape came out of nowhere and Bendis is being lazy in glossing over a lot of vital detail. Two critiques of this otherwise stonking book: I get that he wants to grab the reader from the opening scene – and it is effective – but it feels like too big a leap from where the second book left off. If you’re new to the series, definitely check out the two books before this one as they’re even better than Volume “1”/really 3. Scarlet is one of the best things Bendis has ever written and I’m happy to say the third book continues that trend. The White House has sent a Special Forces envoy to negotiate – but why hasn’t she simply been drone-striked into oblivion? Portland, Oregon looks like a Third World warzone and a new revolution is taking place in America, headed up by Scarlet. So it’s been a hot minute since we last saw Scarlet and things have gone pure cray. Somewhat confusingly, this is actually the third Scarlet book but it’s labelled “Volume 1” because… this is the first Scarlet book published at DC? Even though they also get the first two books, as part of Brian Bendis’ move from Marvel to DC? A trilogy of one book – arf, tres Douglas Adams!
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