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reviewed Gideon Falls, Vol. 6 by Dave Stewart (Gideon Falls #6)

Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart: Gideon Falls, Vol. 6 (Paperback, 2021, Image Comics) 4 stars

As all the universes of "Gideon Falls" finally converge, can the combined forces of this …

Review of 'Gideon Falls, Vol. 6' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

An okay ending to a great series. I would still recommend Gideon Falls to fans of horror fiction, but the ending fizzles out all the buildup this series had. A lot of the time travel turns out to be complete nonsense. Quick! You have to do thing! Why? Because it has to happen. It already happened, so just do it! Most of these actions don't actually help in any way or have weight to the story. Mild spoiler: Oh, and the "great evil" that we're supposed to fear turns out to be woefully incompetent and somehow failed hurt the only few people that pose a threat to it.

The worst thing about the ending isn't actually the ending itself, but how it invalidates the events of the last few volumes. The game of cat and mouse of running away from the evil, getting separated, running away, then uniting later felt pointless. We're led to believe it's all part of the plan that people in the future set up for us, but that whole plot line turned out to not make much sense.