Now this was great fun. After the fairly low-key fifth volume this was a real change of pace.When a member of a famous powers team is caught with his pants down and killed. Walker and Pilgrim's investigation leads them to New York to the groups headquarters and an encounter with several ex-members. At this point all hell breaks loose as one of the most powerful heroes in the world finally starts believing that he's god and takes the world by the throat. The book suddenly takes on a global perspective but we remain with W & P and experience events from where they are without the usual comic book god's eye view of events.
The book is beautifully paced with as much happening off the page as does on. It's nice to see Cutter get a chance to do something good and his vice cop friend was fun. There's a lovely little reference to a teeny little event of few volumes ago too in the big bad's stilted speech patterns. The ending opens up a whole new dimension of shit for the next few books.
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