Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Warlord Wednesday: They Keep Killing Travis Morgan


Convergence #5 came out last week and it continues a story featuring Skartaris and a lot of the characters from the Warlord series--including Travis Morgan, who has you may recalled, died and was replaced by his son. Joshua the Warlord is no where in evidence here and Travis Morgan is quickly killed again by Deimos:


Machiste and Tara are also killed in what's either the eliminating of minor characters to artificially raise the stakes or clearing the dead wood of characters they aren't planning on using again. Either way, it's sloppily done not just because of the continuity flubs mentioned above, but because the writer doesn't seem to have read many (if any) Warlord comics. He has everybody (including his mate, Tara!) call him "Warlord" something that was rarely if ever done in the comics and certainly not his close friends or longterm enemy.

It's a nice looking book, though, with art by Kubert and Hope:

2 comments:

Timothy S. Brannan said...

My understanding is that all these convergence comics are fractured continuities anyway. So this one right before Joshua took over.

Trey said...

That's quite possible. I wondered the same thing. The portrayals being at variance doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.