Days Missing, Volume 3: Enox

Days Missing #3

by Phil Hester, Paul Morrissey (Editor), Jeremy Rock (Illustrations)

Days Enox concludes the saga of The Steward, a mysterious being whose ability to "fold" days of time has resulted in critical human events being absent from our historical record. Their existence is not remembered... but the occurrences of these days have forever changed the course of our evolution.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

136 pages, Hardcover

First published March 26, 2013

About the author

This Eisner Award-nominated artist was born in eastern Iowa, where he went on to study at the University of Iowa. His pencilling credits include Swamp Thing, Brave New World, Flinch, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Clerks: The Lost Scene, The Crow: Waking Nightmares, The Wretch (nominated for the 1997 Eisner Award for Best New Series), Aliens: Purge, and Green Arrow.

Since graduating from the University of Iowa, he has been in the comics industry for over 15 years.

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume reads like a standard story as it has a single thread. This might explain why the comic has fewer overall stars than previous volumes have. It's still a good story that the previous volumes built up to. In the first volume we see the Steward and his mission, then we see his first antagonist that turns into an ally and lover, and finally the true antagonist that destroys everything the Steward created. We do come full circle at the end, though. It's a good story, but Enox may just be too obnoxious for his own good. As soon as he is created, he has a mission that's entirely the opposite of what his parents wanted. He has no love for them and feels outright hatred for humanity.

Enox is the Steward's son, created when Kestus died, and he has both his mother's recollections and his father's time folding power. Unfortunately for humanity, he does not have a love for humans, regarding them instead as pets that need to be closely controled. He takes over the organization Kestus built and gives it the mission to destroy the world to allow it to be rebuilt anew. A string of horrific terrorrist attacks spring all over the world and it looks like the Steward is unable to stop them.

Dr. Prosper, the scientist who knows the Steward and Kestus since their missions in the Hadron collider, realises that the terrorrist attacks are due to the Steward not being able to interact with the world. One of Enox's followers, Nowotny, tries to kill Dr. Prosper, but fails. The doctor manages to contact the Steward via the Hadron collider computers. She gains an ally in Nowotny who realises that Enox has different goals than Kestus. He helps Prosper by allowing her to employ his followers, a group of people who remember the Steward, to infiltrate a South Dakota institute that Enox is deeply interested in.

Dr. Prosper and Nowotny are quickly found out by Enox who reveals that he intends to trigger a confrontation with his father. Enox stabs his father and starts to doubt himself. He frees the nanites that have been programmed to control higher human brain functions, effectively turning the infected into zombies Enox can control.

The final confrontation between the Steward and Enox is in the Hadron collider field where the device's energies disrupt the power to fold time. It eventually gets turned off, enabling Enox to fold several days that trigger the unwinding of time and space, the destruction of the universe in every dimension. Enox overtaxes himself which allows the Steward to fold the days when Enox was created. The world is restored with Prosper the only one who knows what happened.

The Steward wakes up older and bearded in his home dimension. His mission is likely not over.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Strong finish

This last installment to this sci-fi series is the best. Using a single story line throughout and bringing all the plot lines together in a satisfying manner. The book has a strong antagonist with a plausible beef against the hero. The writing is strong, reminiscent of a good Dr Who episode. The artwork wasn't my favorite but it wasn't too radical or off putting. This series was a little bit and miss with the earlier volumes but this final book makes up for that. A good sci-fi\fantasy series that was both Intelligent and entertaining; two things we don't see enough of.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this a bit of a letdown after the first 2 volumes. They were about the Steward and how he would change one day to alter human history for the better. This volume is all about Enox, the Steward's opposite and how he wants to destroy society and turn everyone into mindless drones. Enox's character doesn't feel real. He's so over the top you can't really relate. He wants to rule over mankind so he's going to turn everyone into zombies. Meh.

Received an advance copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.