THE COURIER: LIBERTY AND DEATH #3, available from Zenescope Entertainment on Mach 31st, 2021, is the beginning of the end for Eve as Gillings goes all out to take back what’s his.
The Details
- Written By: Ralph Tedesco
- Art By: Oliver Borges
- Colors By: Fran Gamboa, J.C. Ruiz
- Letters By: Carlos M. Mangual
- Cover Art By: Leonardo Colapietro
- Cover Price: $5.99
- Release Date: March 31st, 2021
Was It Good?
Yes. It was good because there were consequences. Dire consequences.
Too often in action genre comics, there’s a lot of gunfire, explosions, and bare-knuckle brawling where only the bad guys or an inconsequential side character gets hurt. In this issue, there are no winners. The stakes are high, and there’s tons of emotional motivation to set up the next arc coming in 2022.
The art is typical high-quality, Zenescope fare. Nice work kudos go to the art team. Take a peek at THE COURIER: LIBERTY AND DEATH #3 Preview to see what it looks like.
What’s It About?
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
We pick up with Eve and Glen are the last fighters standing in Divinity’s primal survival dome (read our THE COURIER: LIBERTY AND DEATH #2 Review for a refresher). They manage to survive with a little firearm help from Artie, but the Divinity cult calls foul on the win due to the flying drone’s assist.
Back at Longview, the residents prepare to fend off a pack of approaching primals. They opt for silent weapons (crossbows, bow and arrow) to prevent drawing a larger group of primals due to the sound of gunfire.
If it wasn’t obvious by now, this looks and feels a lot like several episodes of The Walking Dead. That’s not a bad thing at all, but there will be a certain sense of deja vú around the character interactions and the plot.
Longview fends off the attack with some losses but only after they break out the firepower. Silent weapons don’t cut it against primals en masse, and the cautious decision to keep the noise down becomes a deadly mistake.
Carver, the Divinity cult’s master, brings Eve and Glen back into the sanctuary for judgment. He orders them locked up until it’s time for another trial in the morning. While being escorted back to their cell, Even and Glen overpower the guards and take their weapons. Glen is shot in the shoulder during the chaos.
They take Carver hostage and escape with one of Divinity’s vehicles, promising to release Carver if they’re not followed. As they drive out, Artie returns to guide them into an escape route.
Gillings and his men arrive at the highway ambush site. They figure out the best place to look for their stolen goods and the surviving crew is in the nearest camp, Longview.
Eve stops at Augusta to get Glen some medical attention, but he’s lost too much blood. Still holding Carver hostage, Eve contacts Longview to check on Liam and the rest of the town. Gillings answers and Eve realizes things just got a lot worse.
Without spoiling the ending, the last 12 pages are some of the most harrowing, tension-filled, and heartbreaking scenes we’ve seen in a comic in quite some time. Eve is forced to make a terrible choice, Gillings gets a new employee, and the Divinity cult burns an effigy of their most hated enemy.
Final Thoughts
THE COURIER: LIBERTY AND DEATH #3, available from Zenescope Entertainment on Mach 31st, 2021, is filled with great art and a story brimming with pain, loss, and tragedy. It’s a gut-punch ending to the current arc.
Score: 8.5/10
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