Alright, Happy July! It’s a new months, so it’s time for me to get this blog kicking again. Let’s start off by catching up on some of my old reviews.

Picking up from the cliffhanger of Monarch #4,  Travon has made it back to the high school where Daysha and Kurtis are hiding in the gym. But the robots from Travon’s spaceship have followed him and they attack. With some quick thinking from Daysha, the robots are incapacited, and then Travon explains everything to his friends.

Daysha feels betrayed, like he whole relationship with Travon was a lie, although he swears that wasn’t the case. But a bigger problem is that the rest of Travon’s species has decided that since he won’t return to them and fulfill is mission, then the mission needs to be “terminated.” It’s not clear exactly what that means, but Travon notices that the mothership is now approaching, and that’s apparently a very bad thing.

And they also have to deal with Todd, the crazy White boy who is armed with a gun and wants to kille them.

This is issue is a bit confusing to me, because we get several flashbacks of Travon’s history on Earth, and it acts like he knew all along that he was an alien, we even get a scene of him telling little Marli about life on his homeworld three years earlier. But when the series began, there was no indication that Travon had any knowledge of his origins, and it was as shocked as everyone else when the aliens attacked. He didn’t find out who he really was until Monarch #3.  It’s also never made clear about what it was that Travon did that made the aliens so sure that Earth was the right planet for him to invade. A big deal is made of him “spying” on humans and that somehow this made it easier for the aliens to attack, but what was a young boy living in Compton really leaning about humanity?

I’m still interested in seeing how Rodney Barnes concludes this story, and continue to enjoy Alex Lins’ artwork in it, but I hope we get more answers before then.

Chacebook rating: FOUR STARS

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