Review: Starcraft Soldiers #2 (of 4)

Explosive. That’s the word I would use to accurately describe the opening pages of this little title from Dark Horse Comics, writtern by Andrew R. Robinson and illustrated by Miguel Sepulveda.Â We’re thrust into the middle of a bloody conflict that puts Lieutentant Singh in the awkward position of getting chewed out for her decisions while on a patrol gone wrong. While regretful, she’s confronted with decisions from her higher ups and explanations that threaten the idea of what little peace the civilization itself knows. Conflict boils over, not just with the hydralisks but with the other human beings.

It’s only after a slightly tense little talk with a commanding officer which ends in her relaying a message that she’d been given only to find a new responsbility as an answer to such. Ultimately, we see things erupt into a mess of sorts, as the well intentioned things that Singh and her team try to do somehow backfire and their confrontation with the mining civilisation ends up imploding in on itself. It understandable, granted all the investments that they’ve made.

Ultimately, Singh falls back into a reconissance type mode; a needed introspection into the inner workings of everything within the colony and with the hostiles that surround her and her fellow humans. It’s something that really strikes a cord with me as we, as people, often times forget to do such when assaulted with such so that we might learn from our mistakes or find our own footing once it’s pulled out from under us.

Despite however fruitful the little down time in her own head might be, Singh is forced back into the world with her fresh outlook on things only after the realization of how big this task might be and how much support she might actually lack comes to light. It’s pages end with us understanding just how much she truly does at this point. For all the talk of needing to do something, there’s a very big lack of will on other sides to allow her to do her job properly. This puncuates itself over end title’s end pages in ways that will, surely, surprise you.

While it’s not really something that I particularly would pick up on my own, I do think that this niche little comic offers up enough that fans of the franchise itself will love delving into it and it earns a solid 3 out of 5 stars from me for all its efforts.

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(W) Jody Houser, Andrew Robinson (A/CA) Miguel Sepulveda