Image Comics and Nocterra #5 Spoilers and Review follows.
Can Light Therapy Stave Off The Darkness?!
The book has a few more variant covers on top of the above.
Plus the main cover.
We open with a creators credits page and…
…the book ends on a quote as per usual.
In-between we get Tiberius walking Val and her brother Emory…
…the the special “lux” light that…
…is intended to purge the darkness from him so…
…he is no longer a shade, but human again.
Tiberius and Val are monitoring Emory and…
…we see his fossilized shades?!
We later learn Emory…
…chose to become a shade as…
…he didn’t find life in the dark running from the shades as a life.
The book ends with Val learning…
…that Tiberius in league with Blacktop Bill who has been hunting Val, Emory and Bailey.
Next up is Nocterra #6 which hits stands on August 11, 2021.
The Pulse:
A slower paced issue, but lots of story development and characterization. Solid art. A fun read. 8 out of 10.