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I somehow missed issue #1 when it came out, but picked up issue #2 a few weeks ago... and, fortunately, my store had a couple of issues of #1 stocked away.
I thought the first issue started off poorly -- the endless exposition, intercut with interruptions and asides, really detracted from the story and beautiful art. Even knowing that I'd already bought the second issue and wanted to read both, it was still something of an effort to make myself get through all those similarly-colored text boxes.
I thought the second issue was MUCH better, though -- as the story kicks off in earnest. I'm definitely interested to see what happens to the fleeing lovers, so it looks as though RotZ will end up on my pull list. The terrific covers and inside art don't hurt...
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And the guy on the cover for #3 is the spitting image of Bruce Wayne from Harris's recent run on Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight!
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Colleen Doran wrote (at her website) that Issue #2 was originally the first book and by the time she was working on #3, DC decided to add an introductory issue to give some background history. I think a lot of people found this first issue of just dialogue a bit flat or confusing.
Supposedly things really get cooking with #3, but they always say that! I still don't have the second book, hope to get it this week.
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Having finally read #2 (what a laggard I am!), it might have been more confusing without the set-up in the first issue; maybe not - the marriage as political alliance is a pretty standard story, not hard to figure out - but #1 has probably set up the whole series, or the first year of stories.
The thing that got me, however, was that I was much more interested in and drawn to the chubby, affable brother and the two amazonian sisters than to the "main" characters. I suspect Na'ia (?) will be developed more and the scion left at the altar is perhaps meant to be an unsympathetic creature.
I'm not even sure of their names, after reading the issues and flipping through them just now. That doesn't strike me as very good for story-telling, unless these are expendable characters (was the scion killed or just unconscious at the end?) . Maybe it's all the apostrophes, which is becoming a tiresome trend in comic book names.
The artwork is a delight; the clothing alone serves to distinguish the different houses, in addition to their behaviour and speech.
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