Meanwhile, GP is hiding with the boy in a cave, the dowager learning of the direction they seemed to be heading, and plan to head them off. The woman plans on leaving her daughter in the secluded mtn environment to go to Denver. GP is momentarily stopped, but fights the soldiers with a lightsaber. She then is off to lead soldiers on the hunt for the young heir to become Grendel-Khan.Īs long as the boy returns unharmed, the enemy could be returned in any condition. The dowager’s teen daughter comes in sleepily confused, she downplaying the gore and sending her back to bed. A woman, the dowager regent-Khan screams at Heath regarding the trio of bodies lying along the corridor, he supplying someone had been helped to escape. Grendel Prime tells the young boy, Jupiter Assante to make sure his safety belt is fastened well, as he speeds along on the bike with sidecar. 4 Prime, but decided I’d refrain, and stick to the main course. The dowager’s teen daughter comes in sleepily confused, she downplaying. It's a lot of wasted potential.īut there's great art, and monsters, and hot lesbians. With Grendel, the concept is put out there and never played with further - the protagonists don't act any differently than any genre protagonist might, despite the fact that in theory they should have entirely opposite ethics from what we're used to. In practice, we get stories like these - adventure stories and caper stories and sci fi stories without even the hamfisted moral quandary of something like Sin City, which isn't morally complex at all, but at LEAST is trying to makes its mild ambiguity part of the plot. Grendel himself (who is thousands of years dead in this book) is a symbol of evil, but we're asked to root for him in more and more complicated ways throughout the series. In a sense, every genre story is essentially a MacGuffin plot.īut since the difference with Grendel is that it's actually about how a malignant force triumphs instead of a benevolent one, Grendel stories have this endlessly unpackable concept about what it means when a society's highest ideals are equivalent to the audience's understanding of societal taboos. In most genre stories, the lines of morality are pretty clear (even if the characters wander back and forth across them), and the resolution (or the options for resolution) is also obvious, so what remains is watching the story components work around each other in interesting ways. I think the difference between Grendel's overuse of MacGuffin plots as opposed to like, every other genre story's use of the same is that Grendel has a lot of interesting stuff it could be exploiting.
And Grendel is kind of like this pretty often - some kind of Big Idea that's dealt with by totally ignoring it for most of the story in which it's been introduced, only to cram it all into an information dump when the fighting is all done. I mean, totally fine because of all the monsters, but laaaazy. Then skip ten years forward in the last issue and Plot Happens with the assistance of tons of plot-advancing caption boxes that hadn't been used anywhere else in the series.
This book is about the Grendel-Kahn's paladin, Grendel Prime (go with it) who has to protect the son of the Grendel-Kahn while he's still a toddler (or maybe slightly older, depending on the artist's mood each issue.) For nine chapters, Grendel Prime drives a landspeeder and fights with a lightsaber against bikers, pirates, mutants, vampires, and I think an alligator. What's important, narratively, is that this is the story about how the son of the Grendel-Khan (read: sci-fi future leader guy) comes into power after his father's death, despite the machinations of the Grendel-Kahn's meddling wife (every female character in Grendel is either a meddling shrew or a hot lesbian.)īut that (the return to power thing) is not the focus of this book. What's important, narratively, is that this is the story about how the son of the Grendel-Khan (read: sci-fi future leader guy) comes into power after his father's death, despite the machinations of the Grendel-Kahn's meddling wife (every female character in Grendel is either a meddling shrew or a hot lesbian.) But th It's kind of weird that Grendel is as well-respected as it is, because if mainstream comics pulled the kind of narrative crap Grendel pulls, everyone would hate it. It's kind of weird that Grendel is as well-respected as it is, because if mainstream comics pulled the kind of narrative crap Grendel pulls, everyone would hate it.
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