They'll probably end up here then at some point. Thanks for the heads up M.O.K. .... Bad Ash sends his mini-minions into the Internet ...
I noticed it the main Evil Dead Archive page that it said AOD Forever #6 was going to be the last issue, but it actually got an extension: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/pressrelshow.html?display=c2406d95-ba84-ee11-80c4-b083fed06a4f
Tony Fleecs actually let that little fact slip in an interview way back in September, saying it's going to at least 12 issues, but Dynamite sent out a formal press release earlier this month announcing the additional issues.
Anybody else here reading AOD Forever? My thoughts on all three issues have been about the same: 1) Not crazy about the art, but it grew on me by the end of issue one. 2) Each issue has had one really solid "chapter" (#1 Sheila, #2 1993 Ash, #3 2093 Ash), but accidently makes the other chapters weaker. 3) Fleecs clearly did his homework when writing this, and won me over by including the "so I left her there" line from the AOD TV cut in the first issue.
Overall, I think it's been OK, but definitely leaps and bounds better than AOD 1979I
That was one of my big gripes with it, too. I think Fleecs knew that juggling the three timelines was going to be a bit troublesome in the beginning, hence why it's going to be a 12 issue series and not the average five or six most of the AOD comics are. If I had to guess, I suppose the first "half" is going to be the set-up, and the second is going to be all the timelines converging (but I would be genuinely surprised if any of the timelines cross-over before issue six).I still don't like the decision to follow three different timelines. They don't have enough pages per issue to properly advance all three concurrent storylines, which really hurts the pacing and character development (also, they wasted 2/3s of the first issue just recapping the movies and retelling both AoD endings, but I guess that was kinda necessary). I feel the comic would probably benefit from following just Sheila in the post-AoD medieval timeline and post-apoc Ash in the future (although I'm enjoying what they're doing with Ash/Bad Ash in the S-Mart timeline).
AOD Forever #4 is out today. Just read through it, and I really don't have that much to say about it besides Sheila's and 1993 Ash's parts were very weak, and it makes me wish that 2093 Ash had the entire issue to himself.
I really think the route should have been introduce the three timelines in issue one, and have each subsequent issue be dedicated to one character before the inevitable cross-over between the three stories. Sheila has done basically nothing besides see a group of Deadites, tell everyone about it, and then the Deadites weren't there when she returned. 1993 Ash/Evil Ash has basically done nothing besides talking to himself at S-Mart and learn about the Internet. 2093 Ash seems to be the only one taking care of business at the moment. I get that the multiple timelines thing is based on an idea that Sam had for AOD2, and listing to Fleecs talk about this makes it apparent that he's a fan of the franchise and really did his homework, but it really should have just been the 2093 story, or just 1993 and 2093 at the very least.Yeah, the 1993 storyline is weak. I think the idea of having Bad Ash manifesting as a split personality of sorts making Ash have evil, murderous thoughts he might not be able to control is really interesting, but I still think that would probably work better as its own separate story rather than an alternate timeline that's part of this story. Here, it just feels like a distraction. By the way, I thought the announced extension from 6 to 12 issues was a good thing, since they really seemed to be struggling to properly develop three different storylines in a limited number of pages per issue, but now I'm thinking it's not gonna make that much of a difference, like it doesn't matter how many issues they have, it won't lead to a meatier story and more well rounded characters. I mean, c'mon, they waste an entire page in this issue having Ted explain to Ash how early internet worked, and it reads like a frickin' Wikipedia article. It's just a waste of a page. In general, the writing took a serious hit in quality this issue, with them resorting to AvED-style juvenile humor and lazily recycling stuff from the movies in the least interesting or thematically relevant way (Mini-Ashes again? Why? I sincerely hope it's not just to have Bad Ash manifest in flesh the exact same way he does in AoD, thus ruining the only interesting aspect of the 1993 storyline so far). It's starting to look like they don't actually have enough story to fill even that original six issue order.
Anyway, my outlook is not so positive anymore. I hope it improves and does justice to the potential I saw in the last two issues, but it isn't looking very promising after this issue. If it keeps going like this I don't see myself sticking with it much longer – and as a matter of fact, I don't see it reaching that 12th issue either.
I really think the route should have been introduce the three timelines in issue one, and have each subsequent issue be dedicated to one character before the inevitable cross-over between the three stories.
Sheila has done basically nothing besides see a group of Deadites, tell everyone about it, and then the Deadites weren't there when she returned.
2093 Ash seems to be the only one taking care of business at the moment. I get that the multiple timelines thing is based on an idea that Sam had for AOD2, and listing to Fleecs talk about this makes it apparent that he's a fan of the franchise and really did his homework, but it really should have just been the 2093 story, or just 1993 and 2093 at the very least.