Crosswind #4 Review

Writer: Gail Simone / Artist: Cat Staggs / Image Comics After the satisfying catharsis of the last episode, issue #4 slows it down so as to allow our two characters to develop more deeply into their mutual situation. Meanwhile, outside forces are aligning, taking advantage of the change in Juniper and Cason’s personalities to advance their own agendas. Every beat continues to prove this isn’t your ordinary body-switching comic. (Is that such a thing?) First off, Cruz, the fiance of Mika whom the real Cason is bedding, is on the that set-up move, sabotaging Cason’s career with Mr Randolph, their mutual employer.

Yeah, it doesn’t take a genius to know that Cason didn’t kill Siggy. But really, he was harder to control than a room full of sugar high toddlers, so maybe it is good that he took a little nap. Permanently. While Cruz is working the angles, Cason and Mika are out on a date, with Juniper (in Case’s body) continuing to be amazed at how far out of whack she’d let her real life get. She’s amazed at the respect she gets now, at the feeling of power and control she has. And at the sex, but that’s for you to read about.

On the other end of the country, Cason in Juniper’s body isn’t having sex. Instead, he’s realizing that despite having been around women all his life, he has no idea how to be one. And being a better woman would really help him pass right about now. So he heads down the street to the local lesbians. It turns out that the woman he confronted when he ran over …