Haunt #2

Counting pages... By the way, I like Invincible, and I loved some of McFarlane's Spawn.

Okay, pages 13-16 contain the stupidest fight scene I have ever seen in a comic book. Ha ha, its funny because Cobra, the menacing poisoned-knife-wielding hitman who was just introduced, can't hear the ghost and keeps replying to our hero.  That's our hero the dead-twin posessed priest whose main power is to relax while posessed.  Okay, silly so far, but nothing really classic.  I admit, relaxing while posessed sounds really tough.  Might be a great idea for a story.

Now to page 16. 

1) Panels 2/3: "Why are you people here?! What do you want from me?!"  Ghost twin: "He's not going to answer you."

2) Hitman while shooting hero: ""Back away freak!  Whatever information they think you have -- you clearly don't."

3) Wacky hero slipping on blood

4) I guess that's our hero grabbing the curtains?  He's built like the hitman, but has a spiral on his chest.  I'll give it 60/40 odds that was our hero.

5) Our hero alone, slaps his face "Oh hell".  Oh hell indeed.  End of scene. 

Will this be explained in the next issue?  Does the hitman have a teleporter?  Will the hitman's sudden disappearance be told in a flashback?  Did he run away off-panel (I assume thats the story being told here)?  One of the keys in storytelling is that I need to trust the storyteller enough that, if something doesn't make sense there is at least a reason. 

I can only assume the next issue is going to be a re-telling of this encounter from Cobra's perspective explaining why page 16 made any sense or had any relevance to the story. 

Bah humbug!