I’ve not read too many awful books in a long time, but I’ve seen some bad anime, TV shows, and played some bad video games. All of them are more entertaining and cohesive than Home. At the very least, they have action and were entertainingly bad. Kique has NOTHING going on for him in Home. It’s too much and nothing going on all at once. No plot points get resolved while more and more are piled on with no end goal in sight. At this point any sane person would just stop.

It would have been a much different story if Kargo had gone down fighting like a beast. A powerful brute can be killed off, as can be shown in many, many stories, by using cunning. Kargo could have been wounded by Ávanti, or Ranach could actually be an intelligent villain and he could have planned out a way to lure Kargo into a trap he couldn’t scape of. Or, for Hircine’s sake! Just have Kargo go down with Ranach and kill them off already. Ranach has outlived his usefulness in the comic, and by keeping him around as a villain, it’s making things stale and boring.

Kique is notorious for failing to deliver promised resolutions, but this was by far the worst one. There was this huge build up to an epic fight between Ranach and Kargo: Kargo was imbued with all sorts of supernatural strength and fighting prowess, which Ranach does not have, and when the time came for that epic fight, it simply never came. Now Kique seems to want to make this Roamer’s fight, because he wasn’t already a huge Self Insert Gary Stu, that now everyone else’s fights are his too. The thing is, Ranach was never Roamer’s problem. From a background perspective it was Kargo and Ferah’s problem, and it was their right as characters to get the closure they needed fighting off their last enemy in the tribe that had hurt them so. That’s how it should have been.

Anyways, what is Roamer going to do? Sit around and wait until Wild Ranach appears to fight him? Because that’s exactly how these characters act all the Oblivion be damned time. They don’t act proactively. They don’t pursue any goal. They just sit around doing nothing, and when a Wild Problem appears, they passively deal with it in some rushed, three pages fight, and then forget about it for the following 30-40 pages. So much is obvious from the later pages. Roamer promised that he would kill Ranach. Two months later where is he? At the Meteor Tribe doing absolutely nothing.

I would honestly like to know if Kique actually reads anything, because storytelling wise it is the worst I’ve seen in a long time and I daresay ever, and I’ve read some truly awful things. I very much doubt anyone who has a habit of reading adventure books, or fantasy books, or any paperback light action book, would so consistently fail at delivering fun, exciting, entertaining scenes. I’m not saying a consistent, well weaved story, with compelling characterization, I’m simply saying fun, entertaining, exciting scenes. You really don’t need to do much, just plaster some tropes and cliches here and there and you’re done.