Anne's Reviews > Coda, Vol. 2

This volume is less whiny bard and more reality-based relationship stuff.



Hum (whiny bard) is determined to save his wife from her violent demon/berzerker moods by getting some sort of magical potion that will change her - without her permission.
Any married man will tell you how badly that will end.
On the flip side, his wife seems to think she's the only one with a quest and he can't possibly understand her need to fulfill her higher purpose. But as the reader who knows what he has gone through for her (whether or not it's his job to fix her aside) you can see that she is his quest. And her fanatical devotion to ending these Whateverthey'recalled bad guys has blinded her to how much she's hurting him.
Which, you know, sounds like marriage to me.



I can see from other friend's reviews that the art is either phenomenal or horrible. I fall into the latter category, as this actually hurt my eyes to read. And that's not hyperbole, I actually took breaks to rub my eyes and let them rest. Certain panels were so loud and squiggly that I felt as though I were trying to decipher the blood splatter pattern at a particularly violent crime scene.
Obviously, your mileage will vary but for me, it was too busy and bright. And without being able to break this down into small panels using a digital copy, I doubt I would have been able to finish this series.

I'm not sold on Simon Spurrier but I liked this volume a tad more than the last one.