Seven to Eternity Volume 1: The God of Whispers

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The story draws heavy on one’s choice and beliefs while having a villain that you as the reader can somehow get behind and see how right he is while also caring for protagonist Adam Osidis who’s name has been written wrong in this world but for his own personal reasons looks to gain from it without making any sort of deal with the devil. This observation has much merit. Both The Dark Tower and Seven to Eternity are fantastical, desperate quests with strongly Western frontier themes of vengeance, struggle, and redemption. The shadow of famine through failed crop raising on a desolate prairie haunts the characters at the beginning of the story. Not as great as the previous volume, yet the Springs of Zhal delivers a great epilogue to a story that sadly doesn't have the original number of avid readers during the time when the first issue was published five years ago. Seven to Eternity, thanks to Jerome Opeña's undeniably great artwork also has the potential of being grand and beautiful. So I have very high hopes for Remender that he will utilize whatever stories the world of Zhal has into something worth reading and a comic series that is memorable and timeless. Pretty high expectations? Yes actually, because the first four issues of the series are consistently good.

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The bigger problem is that, while you get to see a lot of different locations in Seven to Eternity, most of their personality comes from the art. You see a variety of different races in this book, but the only ones I can actually name are humans and goblins. They might've mentioned what race Jevalia is in passing, too, but I don't remember it. As for the cities themselves, only two of them are developed in any real detail. This is understandable to some extent - you don't go on a rollercoaster to see the sights! - but I wish Remender would've taken some time to flesh out the setting. The 10 Best Movies on Apple TV+, Ranked (November 2023) By Jacob Oller and Paste Staff November 1, 2023 | 8:32am

And the darkest thing? It’s that the book’s version of Sauron/Thanos/Apocalypse is *right*. He has the people’s number and he calls them on it. He tells the protagonist that people are confused by complicated ideas, so they don’t trust them. People prefer things to be simple. How often do we see that playing out in our world? Only every day. All 4 issues presented in this volume were an easy 5 stars for me. From start to finish I was completely taken in and carried along with what was going on. Seven to Eternity is EPIC in scope and I am so down with where this story is going!

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For once all of Remender’s cynical beliefs work in a story that has a strong throughline, and he doesn’t drop the ball at the finale. This is *very* cynical indeed, just full-on nihilistic grimdark fantasy that never lets up. The pontificating is on point in service of the tale, and the conclusion is as dark as it gets.This'll serve as a review for the series as a whole. The starting premise is that we have a fantasy world where many members of it each have indivdualized powers. In particular, one person has ascended in recent years into a sort of fantasy Dark Lord: the God of Whispers, whose thing is that he can see through the eyes of anyone who makes a deal with him, and if he dies, all those who have made pacts with him die as well. Our main character Adam Osidis is from a family who was exiled because his father spoke out against the God of Whispers as he ascended, and is shunned by both the God's people, and those who later rebelled against the God, as the father then kept them out of the fight. Adam goes to the God of Whispers, obstentiably to save his family from the GoW's wrath, but in the middle of the discussion, a band of rebels capture the God and begin a long journey to take him to the magical McGuffin place where the god's connection to those bound to him can be severed, and he can be killed without killing them. The “Superhero” Trademark: how the name of a genre came to be owned by DC and Marvel, and how they enforce it I'll stop dancing about it: this is a bleak ending to the series. It choreographed this direction pretty clearly long in advance, but it's still kind of breathtaking on how dire the story is at its end. It's a little too epic in execution to be considered grimdark proper, but Adam Osidis is absolutely a grimdark protagonist. The story, in that sense, is about masculinity and the banality--or maybe pettiness--of evil. The actions of others and Adam's father's pride clearly traumatized Adam, and this story is the slow unfolding of his desire to protect ultimately himself at the cost of all else. And "all else" is more literally everything than I'd usually mean it. Remender has created a very thorough fantasy world to essentially make a point about toxic masculinity; Adam shares a lot with Walter White. I enjoyed it, though I think it maybe didn't quite need to draw out the point so much. I firmly believe that the right is far worse in this regard than the left, but let’s be honest, this is something everyone on all sides is guilty of. And that’s what gives this story it’s sting: it’s dark and cynical, yes, but it’s also all too often correct. That's about the first two and a half issues. By this final volume, the story is some place else--some place ultimately worth reading, but wow what a place to end it all. Spoilers abound after this.