The Wake #10 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (story), Sean Murphy (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors)

The Story: It’s only near the end of the world that we learn the Scientologists were right all along.

The Review: As of last issue, we still had no idea what the hell was going on in this series. We didn’t know where the Mers came from or what they wanted, how Lee Archer managed to send a message to Leeward from the dead, and how she was planning to save the world. Snyder has left those ends wide open; needless to say, he has a lot
to explain in this issue, and it’s almost guaranteed there’ll still be points left unresolved at the end.

Much to his credit, however, Snyder manages to tie every vague vignette from every past issue together into a cohesive revelation that actually manages to be revelatory, astonishingly so. Of course, you’ll have to read between his metaphors (ladders and seeds feature heavily in this issue) to get the answers you seek, but at least they’re relatively straightforward and mostly satisfying. [Warning: major spoilers ahead! Read on at your own risk!]