Comic Book Review: Echo #10
Echo #10
Written & Illustrated by Terry Moore
Published by: Abstract Studio
Reviewed by Joseph Copeli
The Story: When a nuclear detonation occurred in the sky over Moon Lake, Julie Martin was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Millions of fragments of an experimental suit rained down from the sky, and the pieces that struck Julie and her truck merged to form an unmovable breastplate on her chest. Now HeNRI, developers of the suit, will stop at nothing to find Julie and get the remains of their suit back.
The Recap: Julie has a dream that resembles Annie’s death. Dillon and Julie camp out in the desert while Agent Raven interviews a waitress who saw them at a diner. Pam Martin has a nightmare about her sister Julie.
This Issue: Agent Raven confronts a HeNRI executive about the Beta suit. She finds the mental health facility where Pam is being kept and contacts Julie about turning herself in before governmental agencies get involved. The homeless man with the Beta suit glove somehow finds Dillon and Julie.
Finally, some answers about the suit. Not everything has been cleared up, but some cool new information has been offered up by writer/artist Terry Moore. Dr. Foster of HeNRI tells Agent Ivy Raven that the suit is capable of generating vast amounts of energy, controlled by the synapses of the human brain. The suit-brain connection is facilitated by the presence of Plutonium 21 in the suit, apparently a strong conductor of neural synapses. This piece of information helps to explain the dream Julie had in the previous issue, where she was naked and flying in the sky, chased by two demons; a dream that was very similar to Annie’s experience before her death. It’s very likely that Annie’s synaptic brain activity somehow recorded the last moments of her life into the suit itself. When Julie bonded to the suit, she was able to subconsciously access those memories. It also might explain her inherent trust of Dillon, if she is connected to previous suit-wearer. How this works exactly hasn’t been explained.
The fact that HeNRI still isn’t sure about how to remove the suit from human skin does not bode well for Julie. Despite this information, Ivy continues her search, probably believing HeNRI will do right by Julie. Ivy’s intentions in her contacts with Julie seem dubious. It is clear that she is working for HeNRI; they hired her, after all. Ivy seems genuinely concerned for Julie’s safety, although this may just be a ploy to gain Julie’s trust. On the one hand, there is evidence that Ivy might have a thing for her, what with smelling Julie’s sheets every time she gets a chance. On the other hand, Ivy is with Pam, and anyone who messes with the protagonist’s family is usually a bad guy. Ivy doesn’t give off that “evil” vibe, so it’s difficult to tell which way she’ll go.
The return of the homeless man is not much of a shocker, seeing as how he turned up alive after his battle with Julie. The question is: how is he alive? The amount of energy Julie shot at him should have killed him, but all it did was blast him a few miles away and bury him in the sand. Up until that point, it seemed the suit only protected the area of the user it was bonded to. The homeless man appeared unscratched. Does Julie have the same protection? Will the suit protect the unsuited parts of her body? The suit is controlled by the mind and the homeless man may have protected himself by reflex, somehow. If so, Julie should be capable of this as well. It looks like Dillon is the one in real trouble in next issue’s confrontation.
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