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Tarot #55 The Witches' Market (spoilers)
Lovely issue, as always - and congratulations on the Project Fanboy wins! Jim looks plenty pleased in his photo, and rightly so, and Holly likewise - though I imagine the awards themselves are pretty darned happy there too. 
Naturally I'm insanely curious about what Raven's up to, which no doubt was the idea (not me specifically, but readers in general, of course). The book goes right back to the beginning, as Tarot herself recalls - issue #1, and with it the image of Raven Hex as she was then, which is not a comforting thought. But like I think I said regarding last issue (and #48, was it? 'The Dark Path'), she's not the same person she was back then. Her re-commitment to the dark path doesn't preclude her having grown, and gained a greater self-knowledge - even her sole line this issue, "Forgive me, my sister," doesn't sound quite like a return to the Raven of old. Granted she always, even then, regretted having to do battle with her sister, but Raven of old I can more picture saying something like "You'll see I'm right eventually." When she says 'forgive me', I can almost hear it being said with sorrow - 'forgive me, I have to do this', not 'forgive me, I want to to this'. She's a complex person - even in her own personal goals there's often something like a sense of duty in her. No doubt we'll learn in time. Lovely dress she's picked for the occasion too.
The Market was amazing, like one of those big scenes in a Henson production like Labyrinth or The Dark Crystal where no matter where you look there's something happening. Tarot's meditations on the market's denizens, and their relationship to darkness and light, was equally fascinating - shades of the new post-Swordsman Tarot, more balanced in her view and more able to appreciate the dark and its place. Tarot and Raven both have come through kinds of metamorphoses. The Seer's guardian was creepy as all get-out (and effective at providing a moment of great strength for Tarot without needing an action scene), and the Seer herself, her appearance, was a lovely straight-forward idea presented with style. Great colouring on the Seer, by the way, she looked very smooth-soft, like silk. Don't ask me why, but it seems fitting for a Seer.
(I noticed Pooka was along for the ride the whole time - does that mean the guardian deemed Pooka worthy too? Understandable, of course - no-one can stare down a cat.)
And yay, the Aroma Witch returns! Well, not so yay under the circumstances, but it's always nice to see a familiar face return. I wonder what his fate will be - Lycanthrope pride doesn't seem like it'd take to someone who's suppressed that part of himself. Hopefully we haven't seen the last of him - Boo and Licky need someone to make their perfumes, after all
Kudos to all the 'guest stars' - I liked their incorporation into the storyline, it was very fluid and purposeful.
--- Chris Cook
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Re: Tarot #55 The Witches' Market (spoilers)
Yay! You're Happy 
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3/28/2009, 7:56 pm
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