Hinterkind #3 – Review

By: Ian Edginton (story), Francesco Trifogli (art), Cris Peter (colors)

The Story: If there’s one thing all can bond over, it’s the addictive qualities of daytime soaps.

The Review: There are few true victims in the conflicts between races.  Oh, there may be an a genuine dispute if you go back far enough, but at a certain point, no one can really claim to be on the high road anymore.  Whether one is the instigator or the one reacting in vengeance, both are doing wrong to the other, and for as long as the conflict continues, there are no people on the side of justice—only those who profit and those who don’t.

That’s pretty much the scenario we see between humanity and the Hinterkind, or most of them at least.  It’s unclear how many subscribe to the view Jon Hobb self-righteously proclaims to Prosper in this issue, that the Hinterkind simply let humanity do its own thing then “retreated into myth” as a consequence.  It’s impossible to believe the Hinterkind were as passive as all that, especially when so many of them seem so naturally inclined to prey on humans (“Eat you all up, an’ suck out your marrow!”  “Leave nothin’ but a rag, a bone and a hank of hair!”).  It’s much more likely that the more uncouth Hinterkind gave in to their impulses and mankind defended itself, with prejudice.