Cloudia & Rex #3 Review

Writers: Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas / Artist: Daniel Irizarri / Lion Forge Comics (Buno Books) Final issue of Cloudia & Rex here and it does NOT disappoint. I read Issue #2 and knew this great mini series was coming to a close and had a feeling the creative team would be able to wrap this up with closure and a decent ending. I wasn’t wrong. The girls finally find their mom and the High Waveform that seeks to make it so all the other Gods won’t exist has finally caught up with everyone. It is a catch 50/50, really. You knew Black girls were magic but Black Mamas? Black Mothers should never be doubted for the power they wield. Several themes weave through the story of this book — how we grieve, how it affects others, transitioning into something new, becoming more than what we are. Moms, at such an opportune time, discovers a power of her own – the power to travel through time where she can live in better AND worse times. This means she can physically live in a bubble and have her husband back, her whole family back. She can have a younger Cloudia before she became a moody teenager. She can relive some of the happiest days of her life and not have to worry about the present — you know, the full of scale of destruction of the world and all of the Gods scrambling.

It is bittersweet to read and experience; one can certainly draw parallels to one’s own life. Loved ones that are no longer with us that we wish we had more time with? Yet living in the past won’t save you. L…