Essentially, what we get in rapid and organic fashion from this new comic is the foundation for a great new story featuring the main character and comic storytelling elements that made the first series so enjoyable. We get Abbott’s supernatural enemies scheming against here, and, soon enough, we get the news that Abbott’s paper has a new publisher. There are headlines about Nixon, abortion, and local landmarks shuttering in Detroit. We get an opening page that uses newspaper snippets to let readers know what’s happening in Detroit, 1973. Having established all of this allows Abbott 1973 #1 to dive right into a set of interesting changes that will power this new narrative forward. Abbott is a reporter for a Black newspaper in Detroit, she is formidable, and she is gifted with the supernatural powers of a force called the Lightbringer, which she uses to keep paranormal evil in the city at bay. Indeed, across the five issues of the first book, they told an engaging story that slowly built a status quo for the titular main character. By Zack Quaintance - In Abbott 1973 #1 - the start of a sequel series to the excellent 2018 mini Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela, Mattia Iacono, and Jim Campbell - the creative team has a new luxury: an established premise.
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