Ark Angels 3
January 16, 2008
Mercifully, the series ends with this volume. There is a volume-long story where the girls have to capture a Barbary Lion (which, oddly enough, I was reading about not too long ago - it’s believed they may still exist since some were kept privately by Haile Selassie and others, zoos included). The rivals show up again, but they do not actively antagonize the girls, and the menace in this story is what appears to be some sort of parody of a personified version of the Burger King king. It, ah… wasn’t a very good story. I did kind of like the family element to the Barbary Lions, and there were a couple sad and touching moments, but then again, I am a sucker, and even those didn’t make reading the volume worthwhile to me. Soas not to be too negative, it’s pretty obvious that these stories improve volume to volume, and this one was much better than the ones in the previous volumes.
After the lion story wraps up, there’s an attempt to gather the scattered plot threads and resolve what’s left of the actual plot of the series within a matter of pages. It made sense only because it was extremely obvious where things were headed as soon as they were introduced in previous volumes. In addition to the use of repetition again and again, we also get slapped with an environmentalist message on the last page, which reads “Every time we bring another endangered species onto our Noah’s Ark, [Earth's Destruction Clock] is set back one minute. Won’t you help us complete our mission? For your own good…”
There. I’ve just spoiled the series for you. You’ll never have to think about it again now, and neither will I.
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