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Issue #27

• Page 1 -I think these characters have appeared before, and I think the dark-haired one is named Kimithin, but don't quote me on that.
• Page 3 - "Locumire wants the thief taken up to the palace-petty." Palace-petty?
• Page 4 - Note the cave troll (Grindle) hiding on the lower-right of the first panel (fairly obvious, but I thought I'd mention it anyway).
• Page 4 - "These passages... do something to you.". Could this explain the differences between Grindle and the other trolls?
• Page 5 - Lost Legions?
• Page 5- Just how much does Katara remember from her past lives? Does she remember anything about Heath, or since Heath's still alive is that impossible, even though she's an earlier reincarnation?
• Page 5 - So this is the same troll that we saw in the TPB (or the Cerebus preview).
• Page 6 - What clues Katara in to Grindle's presence?
• Page 6 - "I wasn't really going to hurt him. I wouldn't have really." This rings a little false to me. He sure looked like he was going to cut Rubel's throat...
• Page 7 - The stone structure looks suspiciously similar to the I Box that Chead was imprisoned in.
• Page 8 - "I'll be a terror and people will fear and despise me, I'm sure." How close to the truth is this statement? While the initial impulse is to assume Katara's raising a troll army to take back the crown, it also seems like there's a larger, trolls vs. people conflict here as well.
• Page 8 - "It's having two of you about that's driven you mad!" This probably isn't true, as Katara's actions predate Heath's arrival by quite a bit.
• Page 8 - How long has Quinton been Katara's prisoner? How long has he been awake, and out from the influences of the Dreaming Tree?
• Page 9 - I assume Loe is the troll Katara met at the bridge.
• Page 11 - Quinton has a brother?! Who's that?! (UPDATE: It's Ramanious Kath, as about everyone except me guessed.)
• Page 14 - McGi!? Rubel's uncle?! By his mother or father? Sheesh!
• Page 16 - "When two artists become parents, it always ends up with crazy children!" I assume Quinton is talking about Katara's parents in her previous life, and not the King and Queen, right? Also, possibly Soracia's parents?
• Page 19 - Is Namandrior Quinton's brother, maybe?

Contributors
Joshua Stratton (cpt@gryphon.auspice.net) - Katara's actions not being due to Heath's presence.
Khari J. Sampson (ksampson@atlantatribune.com) - Quinton's brother's identity.
Solomon Foster (colomon@ralf.org) - Soracia's parents being artists

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