Lone Ranger #15

[Lone Ranger]

Wow! These guys have been busy!

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k294/1loneranger1/LR15covCassaday.jpg

[MadMikeyD]

Comics Bulletin has a good review up for issue #15:

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/122677175733123.htm

I mostly agree with them. As I said elsewhere, I was a bit disappointed that the mystery was wrapped up so soon, but it was still a great read. And I'm sure when I re-read this arc as a whole it won't even bother me any more. It's likely only an annoyance as a single issue. In an overall story, probably not so much.

[Lone Ranger]

Wow, I didn't know it was out yet. I'll have to get my copy as soon as I can. :D

[Lone Ranger]

Are there any preview pages anywhere?

[MadMikeyD]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=1360&disp=table

**Spoiler warning - if you haven't read the issue yet, these pages reveal the killer.**

[Lone Ranger]

Thanks MadMikey!

[Lone Ranger]

I finally got my issue this weekend. Either I've been glossing over the clues, or else I've missed seeing the Doc in earlier issues. I found it disturbing that the lawmen would take the law into their own hands like that. I wonder how that will play into future stories.
I don't know how I feel yet about the budding romance between John and Linda. I kind of like the tease, but I don't want to see it blosom.

[MadMikeyD]

I finally got my issue this weekend. Either I've been glossing over the clues, or else I've missed seeing the Doc in earlier issues. I found it disturbing that the lawmen would take the law into their own hands like that. I wonder how that will play into future stories.

We first actually saw the doctor in #14, I believe. I re-read the story as a whole (#12-15) over the weekend and it reads even better that way. I also was disturbed by the actions of the sheriffs. I can only assume it will be addressed later on.


I don't know how I feel yet about the budding romance between John and Linda. I kind of like the tease, but I don't want to see it blosom.

I do know how I feel about it. I don't care for it. I understand the creative team is using her to help humanize the Ranger, but any thing other than a brother/sister relationship there is wrong on many levels. She was his brother's wife, after all.

[Lone Ranger]

I do know how I feel about it. I don't care for it. I understand the creative team is using her to help humanize the Ranger, but any thing other than a brother/sister relationship there is wrong on many levels. She was his brother's wife, after all.

One of the things that always bothered me about the Lone Ranger and Tonto was the lack of women in their lives. I understand why it was done that way, but to me it made them less human, less connected to the frailties we all have. It's natural for a man to want/need a a woman. At the same time, he can't be who is must be if he has a woman in his life. I guess what I'm saying is I'm glad he has a close female relationship but not a committed one.

[Slone]

It's natural for a man to want/need a a woman.

unless you live here in California! :eek:

Slone(what don't live near San Fran-wierdo! ;) )Stranger

[CindyR]

I thought this issue and the story was WONDERFUL!!! the story was too short--the consequence of the medium, i fear, or perhaps i just wanted more. :) Art and story were both top notch.


I finally got my issue this weekend. Either I've been glossing over the clues, or else I've missed seeing the Doc in earlier issues. I found it disturbing that the lawmen would take the law into their own hands like that. I wonder how that will play into future stories.
i suspected the Doc right away, and was happy to see all the clues come together in the end. (I'm a bit of a whodunit fan.) wish we could have had this story for long enough to get a few red herrings, tho, and some subplots. Perhaps a year-long (our time, not theirs) investigation.


I don't know how I feel yet about the budding romance between John and Linda. I kind of like the tease, but I don't want to see it blosom.
Errrr, guys, time for a refocus here. so far there has been no--repeat NO-- sign of 'romance' in the linda-john relationship. not anywhere. every nuance has been carefully shown to be big sister-little brother. i mean, fer goodness sake, she probably helped raise him!
One thing i will mention-is that totally *awesome* scene at the end of the story where she walks in on John and sees him without a shirt. having to turn away in pain when she sees all the scars and abuse on his body--not even being able to go on with what she was intending to speak about--was amazingly telling. The continued grief and pain her little brother is feeling is hurting her too.
I just hope they don't kill her off. she's a good character and i'd hope to see her reappear from time to time even tho she cannot remain a continuing one in the series.
Cindy

[Lone Ranger]

Cindy,
I think they both want a romance, but are afraid of it. Remember John peeking at Linda while she slept? Linda seems to balance between a motherly/sisterly role and that of a love interest. If DE sticks to LR cannon, Linda will have to die. How and when it happens can really make a lot of drama for the book.

[CindyR]

Cindy,
I think they both want a romance, but are afraid of it. Remember John peeking at Linda while she slept? Linda seems to balance between a motherly/sisterly role and that of a love interest.
i only saw a protective, worried look, not a romantic one.
what you're implying wouldn't have occured to him, IMO.
cindy

[Lone Ranger]

Cindy, you can say that because you don't think like a man. :p

[CindyR]

Cindy, you can say that because you don't think like a man. :p
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{cindy is momentarily speechless.} :)