Wonderland #11

Calie and Violet find themselves still on the run from Wonderland giving up any attempts at living a normal existence. They try to stay one step ahead of its reach but even as their life on the road continues, beings from the sinister realm spread their evil influence across the Midwestern land. Elsewhere a middle age traveling salesman obsessed with being the best of the best will find that in the world of Wonderland insanity is on sale and all roads lead to madness. And what dark secret does he hold that will give birth to an all new denizen of Wonderland? Find out here in this not to be missed issue!

And the crazies just keep piling in.  Calie and Violet have hit the road again, hoping to find some sort of salvation from all of the horrors Wonderland has thrown at them.  Violet now fully understands how evil Wonderland is and in turn isn’t apt to be as reckless as she used to be.  Not only is this for her own safety, but to protect Calie as well.  Essentially, they’ve come to an understanding to watch each other’s backs.  However, for the sake of putting some distance between them and their last run in with Wonderland, they’ve decided to entrust their well-being to a total stranger.  Going off of the norm, this was probably one of the few cases where the hitchhikers needed to be wary of who they got a ride from.  The open road used to be a place where you could kick-back and enjoy the ride, now it’s become a stretch of distrust and wariness.  Calie and Violet need to keep their wits about them if they’re going to make their trip in one piece.

I find myself drawn to this new character Lory, who was kind enough to give Violet and Calie a lift.  It’s rare that you find someone so nonchalant while picking up hitchhikers, which makes one wonder if there is something more to Lory than meets the eye.  I mean, even Calie’s warning voice in her head didn’t go off, so maybe Lory is just a really trusting person, looking to help out someone in need.  She seems like just your average, care-free girl out for a drive, except for her game-changing secret that’s revealed at the end of the issue.  Now this is one real doozy and definitely not what I was expecting.  So, suffice to say Lory has my undivided attention now and I’m really looking forward to seeing how she factors in later on in the series.

No problems for me from this issue.  The writing is outstanding as usual and there was only one artist doing interiors.  I would say that’s a win  right there.  Even the creepster Gus isn’t enough to turn me off of this book.  It’s a very nice story that fits in great as Calie and Violet make their transition to wherever they may end up.  In the end though, it doesn’t matter where they go because it seems like Wonderland always manages to find them.

So, the Liddle girls are on the road again, I think there’s a song in there somewhere.  In this day and age, you never know who you’ll meet out on the highways.  So,  as long as Calie’s “Wonder sense” (that’s what I’m calling her little warning voice), keeps them out of trouble, these two girls shouldn’t have any problems.  And here’s something I just thought of, you can’t tell me not a single guy stopped and offered these two gorgeous girls a ride?  I somehow find that hard to believe, unless they hadn’t been on the road for very.  In any case, another recommended read right here.  So, go out and grab this book, even if you have to hitch hike to the store, it’s worth it.  For more info on where to pick up this issue, visit the Zenescope website, or the Zenescope Facebook page.

Geek-o-Rama received a copy of this book for the purpose of this review. All thoughts, comments and opinions are those of the individual reviewer.