Chapter 4 Page 90 (pg 240)

So I am going to end it here for the day. I have made it half way through this chapter, and man is it going good. That fight between Forge and Spender, good god I was almost tearing up at it. It was so raw and emotional and just fuck, a clash of ideas on how to be/act good. Because we know that Forge isn’t completely, purely good. He did bad things, he spoke a language that only truly evil beings can speak. But you hear him scream basically that you shouldn’t throw people under the bus and allow them to die for the sake of the world, only to be countered by Spender with you shouldn’t have screwed around with the bus in the first place. Just everything about this, I honestly think that this is the best scene in the entire comic so far.

And man oh man we have learned so much more. Spender controls light and shadows. His spirit is satan/lucifer who is a caged bird mixed with a light bulb since he brings light. Isabel chose Max over her Spirit Partner. And Spender’s lover was a ghost/spirit that was super super powerful and he had to kill/got credit for her death. Lot more excitement coming our way!

hurray for backup morality

Max’s first club field trip isn’t really going good here.

I knew it. Spender is the man who will dirty his hands to keep others pure.

Spender wants to protect the town for good, so he will do anything for information to stop the danger once and for all. He has trained the kids to make sure that they can protect themselves too. But can I say, I love how Forge flares up at the thought that Spender called the kids on the train “secondary”.

And here we have a clash of ideas. Because yeah, Forge didn’t need to do that evil thing. And yeah, he is trying to push responsibility onto Spender. But now we see why they are great opposing forces, because how would you act for the good of the whole. Do you “wait for it and plan ahead” of “act in the present like you’re running out of time”

Forge is so angry over what he had done, what Spender chose to do, with the type of man he once was in a literal past life. Because his question is what this arguement boils down to: If you leave children to their deaths to catch a bad guy, if you allow present evils to continue to stop future ones, what is your excuse?

Isabel chose to save Max over her Spirit, while Forge’s words play overhead on the rationality of good and evil, oh god this scene.

That is a fucking killer line.

God…Forge is a war vet. He became disillusioned by the work he had done and now sees Spender as someone who he once was.

The needs of the many out way the needs of the few. He will get his hands dirty if that means a city can remain pure. But how long will that type of justification last?

Oh don’t worry, I know that Anvil here is still not a good guy. While he didn’t mean to harm children, he didn’t go out of his way to fix his mistake either. He is morally ambiguous and I love him for it.

And damn does Forge take everything he can get.

Sorry Spender, I need to side with Anvil over here. What was your excuse? Because he did give you a chance to leave, and he did tell you you were tricked by the dogs.

God see why I like Anvil here? He gave Spender the benefit of the doubt, that maybe Spender really was strong enough to fight, that Spender would put his all to go back to the train. But in the end, Anvil could have killed him, leaving those “kids” on the train alone and in danger. And realizing that, Anvil is disappointed in Spender.

God what an interesting character.

“Fight the Glasses Guy,” they said. “It will lead to you doom,” they said.

Thank’s Morrison. Now you are telling me that Furnace Shark is suicidal.

Who’s ready for a BBQ!

Jesus Christ that was such an armor piercing statement that it canonly broke Spender’s glasses. Looks like his ghost lover was pretty badass themselves