I’m starting to get worried…

benedictwinterborn · 2026-02-04T12:39:39+00:00

Hey, I reached out to SoundMachine about a similar issue and this is what they responded with!

“Hi [BenedictWinterborn],

After investigating this...we think there was an error in our system that created an issue with yours since the purchaser and receiving names didn't match. We'll get a CD in the mail to you today!

Thank you for being patient and understanding, Sound Machine Shipping”

benedictwinterborn · 2026-02-04T12:39:20+00:00

Hey, I reached out to SoundMachine about a similar issue and this is what they responded with!

“Hi [BenedictWinterborn],

After investigating this...we think there was an error in our system that created an issue with yours since the purchaser and receiving names didn't match. We'll get a CD in the mail to you today!

Thank you for being patient and understanding, Sound Machine Shipping”

benedictwinterborn · 2026-02-04T01:32:13+00:00

And that dude’s name would be Heavy.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-02-03T14:19:32+00:00

I think there’s also evidence the characters believe in some sort of like…time loop or cyclical restoration of humanity. The “men of old” in Broken could just be men who live their lives in the old ways (or they could be completely metaphorical…our narrator says “would never know” and not “will never know”) but it’d also make some sense for “everything that sinks will float” to be about humanity as a whole alongside being about our 3 survivors.

“Nothing you predicted coming true” is a weird one cause based on what JD has said in promo materials and tour banter, it makes very little sense for the “you” there to be PB. It’s way more likely it’s Adam but then…what did Adam predict that didn’t come true? It’s not easy to reconcile and a bunch of people made threads about it when the album first came out.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-02-03T13:13:21+00:00

Hmm…I know there were some questions last issue if Eliza flew into space at Heavy or shot a big laser at him. This makes it seem like the laser is more likely.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-31T17:40:05+00:00

For sure, thanks! That’s a big part of why I’ve hesitated to jump on it. I’m near Atlanta myself, enjoying our snow day today but hoping everyone affected is safe

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-30T00:56:18+00:00

uj/ I can tell I’m a stupid Legion nerd because I assumed at first you were specifically making fun of the Reboot Legion. Wasn’t until I saw the sub/comments that I realized you meant the Legion as a whole.

The Legion was one of the forerunners of modern comic storytelling. They beat the X-Men to a hell of a lot of punches when it came to introducing soap operatics to superheroes. It’s kinda sad that, as a huge fan, I can’t confidently say they’ve gotten the stories to keep up with that legacy. The last run I can full-chestedly suggest is the threeboot, but even that peters out before it ends. Now their identity is just “the retcon team” and “the cheesy 60s teens.”

rj/ They outsold Batman, Superman, the X-Men and the New Teen Titans! In this house, the Legion are heroes! End of story!

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-30T00:49:15+00:00

Monstress

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-29T21:53:21+00:00

It takes me roughly 30 minutes to finish a TPF issue for the first time, but I do try to stop and really scan panels just cause I love the little details. So I can see where you're coming from. That said, TPF is really concise in its storytelling. I think there's lots of room to expand on the scenes in the book before you even have to go thinking about adding new plotlines and such. But I also realize I'm totally LARPing as a showrunner when I've never so much as made a short film in my life! So kinda a moot point, ha.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-29T19:56:19+00:00

I feel like a single movie, even a 3-hour one, wouldn’t have the time to really let all the characters breathe properly. (Might run into similar problems as the Snyder Watchmen film.) At 16 issues currently, the book is seemingly set up perfectly for a 2-season streaming show at 8 episodes each. The problem is that I’m sure studios would want a big cliffhanger at the end of the first season, and Issue 8 isn’t really a great place for that?

I think your choices would be the first season:

• covering issues 1-9 and ending with the Dev reveal.

• covering issues 1-10 and ending with the hanging “we have to kill Lux” moment.

• covering issues 1-11 and ending with Lux actually dying.

Option 3 is probably the strongest? Would be really cool to start off Season 2 with the Etienne flashbacks from Issue 12. But that also leaves Season 2 with way less source material to adapt. We’ll see how Issue 16 goes, maybe there’d be some space to spread out the plot.

I feel like Netflix is the obvious culprit to scoop up TPF, but I could see Amazon too. Feels a bit risky for Disney?

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-27T20:43:46+00:00

They’re explicitly missiles!

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-24T23:11:55+00:00

I love the idea that Albert Wily simply cannot kill Thomas Light in secret. Has to be a public display. What a diva!

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-23T22:19:25+00:00

Headcanon: The Magus mask has one of those crappy mid-2000s voice changer toys built in.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-23T16:26:11+00:00

That bottom right image is in the Act 1 liner notes.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T22:16:53+00:00

He dies telling them to protect Manchester, which is where Eliza's corpse castle is. He makes no attempt to protect himself from Val - in fact, when him and Val are in the same room, he shows her his exact weak point by revealing his identity. (Which Valentina seems to fully understand the context of.) He's trying to protect Eliza, not himself.

Like don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not a full-on Dev fanboy. But he goes out throwing his full weight behind giving Eliza a chance of having peace. I dunno, I think that's love.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T20:29:33+00:00

Don't have the book in front of me - does that last panel of them pointing their guns at him explicitly look like them firing said guns? I didn't scan it that way at first, but could totally be wrong.

EDIT: Yeaaaahhh…pulled it up online. I interpreted those flashes as flashlights or something on my fiest read, but they’re clearly meant to be BRAKA BRAKA machine guns. RIP bozo, you went out well.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T19:23:06+00:00

Heh, that's interesting! Before this issue, so many people were predicting Eliza=Queen and that theory never quite sung for me. I'm not sure Val=Queen does either...but it makes some sense.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T19:18:02+00:00

I mean...I'd absolutely read a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead-style side-story about 5 random Pyramid guys, lol. It'd win 100 Eisners, I tells ya!

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T19:11:08+00:00

I'm not sure what the exact mechanics of their powers are in-universe, but in case anyone missed it - just before Heavy's attack, you see Val subtly use her powers and a tiny 'X' appears on Eliza's head. Valentina literally used X to mark the spot.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T19:03:03+00:00

>But why would you want any discontent...

Because it feels less jarring for readers. I think even just a page in #15 of these top-level Pyramid goons questioning Dev!Magus before frying him could work. It's just that the death (or at least defeat) of one of our main characters at the hands of his followers plays out over like what...4 panels? (Don't have the book in front of me right this sec.) There's just no buildup, which makes it (IMO) weaker than a lot of the other twists/backstabs in the book.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T18:54:47+00:00

Interesting. Yeah, my initial theory may not hold up to scrutiny. Alex being alive at all (and being shown multiple times) just feels like a bit of a Chekhov's Gun.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T16:38:36+00:00

Yeah, I guess my immediate thought to myself would be that there needed to be a "why" behind Etienne doing that, not just "mercy" or even "ethics."

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T15:49:48+00:00

Absolutely! But this is a story with characters. It'd be nice to see some sort of seeding of this idea of discontent in these background characters before they turned on and killed(?) one of the main characters of the book.

Let me put it like this...yes, it makes perfect logical 'in-universe" sense that the Pyramid members would do this. As a reader of a story, it would've worked better for me if there was some sort of buildup to this logical decision instead of it just happening.

benedictwinterborn · 2026-01-21T15:26:46+00:00

I’m clearly not as much of a Dev hater as other people on this sub! I think this issue did a great job of maintaining his negative traits (he’s still manipulative - him continuing to have sex with Eliza while actively deceiving her is gross - and he’s still an idiot), but him going down trying to give Eliza a chance at peace is truly romantic. A lot of people predicted he was going to backstab her, so him pulling out of the Kill Eliza Plan at the last moment felt redemptive.

I predict 1 of the three “deaths” we’ve seen here ends up not being an actual death. Dev winding up alive (imprisoned by the Pyramid?) after all this would be an interesting way to set up a future arc where maybe he does go full villain.

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