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Mystic Comics issue #5

I posted this on Pinterest a while ago. No one really saw it so I wanted to post it here :)

I don’t see much Outer Worlds stuff like this, so I had to create my own design.

Ramon is an astronaut working for a private corporation, attempting a return to the moon. But a disaster took place, his shuttle went offline, and he his astronauts lost contact with Earth for a few minutes. Ostensibly, the missing minutes were boring shop talk on how to fix the shuttle, but Ramon is demonstrating an unusual control of gravity as of late.

This one never quite grabbed me. The plot of the story involves corporate overreach, attempting to control whatever is affecting Ramon, and his attempts to escape said control while taking care of his younger brother. It's about what you'd expect from such a plot, though the lack of supervillains does make for a novel superhero experience.

The art is fantastic. Angular, stylized and surreal in all the ways it needs to be, it's the thing that kept me reading when the story was weak, and there's times when I stopped reading to take the art in. But it's a small thing when it comes to the story I'm reading, and ultimately it wasn't able to get me to stick with it.