- Script by Christofer Emgard
- Art by Mattias Haggstrom, Henrik Sahlstrom, and Eric Persson
- Colors by Davi Comodo
- Letters by Michael Heisler
- Published by Dark Horse Comics
This also runs into an interesting issue with reviewing multiple issues in a series. While I have done it before, I don't tend to do it often, as without a huge shift in creative team or story, there end up being a lot of the same positives and negatives from one issue to the next. For better or worse, this series hasn't had a shake up, which makes a lot of the same things apply to this issue as the previous.
For one,the art is still great. In fact, with this issue, I think that I love it more than I did before. While it can't perfectly recreate the first person feeling from the games, the scenes of Faith running across the city continue to suck me in completely. Even in a particularly notable setpiece, in which Faith takes advantage of a low flying drone, while it's very dynamic and exciting, it also looks effortless.
On the flipside of similarity, the story continues to be a bit of a mess. It's not even the interesting kind of messy, instead following a very standard type of plot and sequence of events that I feel like I have seen so many times before. Faith is continuing to earn the drawing from her mother, and while that could be a great motivation, we don't really care about Faith. If the story built her as a character beyond her skills and seeking connection to her dead family, it would mean so much more, but this is not that place. Instead, we have no real reason to care about what she's trying to do.

Then the issue ends on a cliffhanger, but at that point, without a bird fight, it's mostly unable to interest me in what's happening. It would be predictable except that I didn't care enough to try and predict the story, and I don't know what's going to happen next, but also don't care much about that. The story fails to engage any time it tries to force its way to the front, ahead of just marveling at how good it looks.
I really don't think I'm coming back this time. There was just enough in the last issue to make me think it would be worth coming back to this issue, but there's not enough left to bring me to future issues. It's a shame to have to abandon this art, but it's hard to care about it when the story falls completely flat.
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