Loveless 6
The creepiness of last month’s ending (Atticus recalling his lewed interaction with the new Sherrif’s wife) we get to witness what life was like for poor, confusing, confounding but definitely not good Atticus.
After a confusing remembrance of his initial coming to freedom, and an even more confusing gallop through the events that lead to his joining of the Union Army, we are right back where we began. What did we learn? Atticus was given freedom, and hated it. He was taken in by a family that treated him like a regular person, and he hated it. That family was killed by either Atticus, or by a couple of headhunters out to take the former slave back to the South. Either way he sort of hated, or perhaps enjoyed that. Then, whilst traveling either in shackles and on foot, or in the saddle free-like, his captors were slaughtered by the Union army. This is so confusing because he talks about being in the saddle, but the art shows him on the ground and he talks about holding his horse steady, but the art shows everyone on horseback being shot in the face by Union cavalrymen who seem to be incredible shots. Anyway the point is that he hated the army, so he joined it.
Now, we all know that he was one of the many rapers of is now incognito lady, about which he silently reminisced at the end of last issue. And, we know that according to the art, he was one of the men with the pseudo KKK masks on that hung a bunch of slaves.
So, what the heck is going on? I think that Loveless has been a crude, but good-storied book. But, what the heck is going on with the art? We need some clarity people. We can’t just draw whatever we feel like drawing and hope that it goes along with the story. There is the potential for the failure of a really great book should this not be addressed.
Fair warning.
-Peblee
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