Wow. Clearly, they ran out of ideas after the crossover episode. It really feels like everyone just got sick of Jack being such a tool that they decided to spend 3 volumes making us happy to stop reading. In all starts in Vol. 7 where Jack, who now has a huge pile of gold, decides to not spend any of it. This leads Jack to come down with a bad case of dragon sickness. It's that special kind of greed that consumes your whole being. This is what happened to Thorin at the end of the Hobbit. In Jack's case, he gets fatter and fatter until he morphs into an actual dragon. Then he sits on his gold in a cave and curls up on it with just Gary to keep him company.
Meanwhile, his son, Jack Frost takes center stage in Vol. 8 as he learns to become a hero in some kind of Flash Gordon world. He kills a bunch a aliens, loses his virginity to a green alien babe, and wins a magic super sword. It's all very "meh."
So after 2 volumes of lackluster storytelling, I was quite happy to be done with this world, and boy was I obliged. The final volume follows all of our characters flocking to Jack and dying in an epic battle. Did I say epic? I meant epically stupid. Sorry for the confusion but I just got to the Battle of Pellenor Fields in The Return of the King. Now that's epic. But more on that in a later post. This? This is the writers blowing a big fat rasberry on this world, crumpling up the pages and flushing the whole thing down the toilet. You can skip these.
5/10
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