GFT Retrospective #92: The Dream Eater Saga #12 (Ever After)
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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Retrospective Dreamer, Disappointed Ticketmaster. Apologies for spoiling my opinions right out of the gate, but one thing I do not miss being reminded of is how much hype Zenescope (and comic book companies at large, and even Japanese media sometimes) build with big events like this, promising to shake things up, escalate threat levels, and make good on forgotten plot elements, only to trade an epic final battle and impactful moments for a pointless squabble and a slow winding down after the seemingly unstoppable, world-ending threat suffers from a plot armor malfunction out of nowhere and can be defeated by a random extra poking it with a stick or something. It's not like the Zenescope team are or were bad at things like this. The eighteen-plus-issue Wonderland trilogy, for all of its scattershot lore and endgame contrivances, managed a thematically powerful ending. Even Neverland , before the Tales came along to shit the bed with underwhelming retco...