Dollhouse: Epitaphs #2

Admittedly, I’ve had a small stack of comics waiting to be read for a few weeks now. I’m a terrible comics fan when I’m reading a novel (in this case, I was reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman). Mike tells me all of the time that my comics collection would be nothing without him… and he’s kind of right; he remembers to pick mine up when I don’t. That being said, I finally read this month’s Dollhouse: Epitaphs book a few days ago, and I freaking loved it.

While I don’t care too much about Maggie, Zone, and company — because come on, we’ve already got their story from both of the “Epitaph” episodes in the TV series — it’s a little handy because it gives us a kind of time frame for the goings-on in Alpha’s army. While Team Maggie is kind of less concerned with where they’re going and more concerned with surviving at the moment, Alpha wants to find Echo and then take down Rossum with this army he’s been building. It’s cool to see the origin of the tech that Anthony and his gang in “Epitaph Two: Return” are wearing, even though it’s on a kid. I don’t mind too much, though, because damn, can Trevor think on his feet! When one of the wielders came at him while he tried to save one of the Ivys, he swapped out hearing, making him immune to the frequency.

Speaking of Ivy, I really want to know where the original Ivy is. I always wanted to know what happened to her after Topher told her to go. I’m glad to see her character alive and well, even if she’s in the form of several imprints. I thought it was hysterical in Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 when one of the female Ivys and the male Ivy decide to have sex just for the hell of it.

Meanwhile, Zone finally caught the “I’m going to do something about this!” bug and took off at the protests of Maggie to destroy a broadcast tower in Hollywood. I honestly don’t care about any of these characters. I didn’t mind them on the show. I love Felicia Day and they were only in the spotlight for one and a half episodes, but now they’re seriously taking away from my Alpha time.

After watching “Epitaph Two: Return,” and seeing Echo and Alpha hug each other like they were good, old friends, I’d been dying to know how crazy Alpha became sane and willing to fight for the cause. Even though I was stoked to see more of Alpha’s story when I started reading the comics, I still desperately missed crazy Alpha. It seems that writers Andrew, Jed, and Maurissa read my mind, because at the end of #2, Alpha got attacked by one of the wielders. He survived because he’s able to take on multiple imprints, but it severely tipped his brain’s already fragile ecosystem of imprints, and the Alpha we know and love seems to be back! Are you glad to see him all serial killer again?

My only complaint about this book is the weird sort of immunity that Maggie and Zone had when the radio played the broadcast. Their two companions were immediately wiped and imprinted, but they were both able to stand there and gun them down. I guess I can live with that, but it seemed kind of weird to me. Was it just me?

This month’s issue had no letters in The Imprint Room (and neither did #1), so I sent them an email. Keep your fingers crossed that it gets printed! With my luck, a whole slew of letters will suddenly come in and there won’t be room for mine.

If you wrote in to them, what would you say? Leave me a comment and tell me what you’d say!