by Jarrod Jones. Order and Outrage is a comics legend grappling with perennial concepts turned extreme in our current moment. Those who have, take. Those who don’t serve. Simple. But in Jim Starlin and Rags Morales’ sci-fi polemic, the Have-Nots have a big responsibility foisted on them: genetically, they have to serve a purpose. Those who don’t are purged by Sweepers, giant death machines that look like ED-209 from RoboCop. Peace through Order.
Master Order, that is, a tyrannical titan of Starlin & Morales’ make, who rules over everything with a menacing grip. And like any big-shot fascist soon discovers, people get tired of tasting boot, taking it on the chin, bowing and scraping and barely living. Resistance is inevitable. Shuffling through her myriad lives, Megan discovers this, too. Time is a road of many paths, — in Order & Outrage, it’s punctuated by “Then,” “Before,” and “Now,” try to keep up — but all roads lead to retribution.
Order & Outrage is classically structured comics with a poetic mind — and from the writer of Warlock and the artist of Identity Crisis, yet. At home in its Dark Horse confines, free to tell this story unfettered by squeamishness or bashfulness. Its ideas aren’t so out-there, just its stargazing genre tropes. It features planets called “Penetralia” and “Obnubila,” which says so much about this book. Here’s a swiftly-told, gorgeously drawn piece of weird science that looks like Wally Wood in places and Steve Ditko in others. It has colors that just might make you stare. And here we are, at its final dispatch. Maybe.
Dark Horse Comics has asked DoomRocket to share pages from its final issue of Order & Outrage, where we see Master Order reckon with forces he did not anticipate: yep, Outrage. Megan has reached her apotheosis, possibly for the umpteenth time; who can say. But one thing’s for certain: Order had ruled for far too long. Now, Megan’s pissed.
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From Dark Horse Comics: They have stolen her world and replaced it with desolation. Everything she knew is now a memory. In a universe without accountability, sometimes someone needs to force the issue. There is a price that must be paid, and she is here to collect. She is power. She is dangerous. She is Outrage.
ORDER & OUTRAGE #4
Written by Jim Starlin.
Art and cover by Rags Morales.
Colors and cover by Hailey Brown.
Letters by Michael Heisler.
Cover B by Jim Starlin.
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