Letter 44 #6 – Review

By: Charles Soule (story), Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque (art), Dan Jackson (colors)

The Story: There’s never a Maury Povich audience in space when you need one!

The Review: I don’t often get what I want from a story, so any time I do is cause for celebration—on my part, at least. Right now, some imaginary confetti is in order as Letter 44 finally gives me what I’ve asked for months: a Clarke-centric issue. Not that I’m completely uninterested in what’s happening in the Stephen Blades administration, but as Stephen himself admits, even if only superficially, “The things happening down here pale in comparison to what you’re doing out there.”

True enough, but that’s not to say that what Stephen’s doing doesn’t have a huge impact on the U.S. and the world at large. I’m not talking about his political maneuvering with Carroll, in which the ex-president offers all sorts of perfectly rational reasons for his now infamous letter, disappearance, and alleged involvement with Elijah’s “stroke.” Perhaps fed up with such petty distractions, Stephen brings the hammer down hard on his predecessor with a letter of his own, in which he promises to reverse Carroll’s policy choices, rid his administration of all Carroll influences, and take a strict eye-for-an-eye policy with any future Carroll-directed attacks.*