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Okay, Issue 2 of Origins is out and I have to say I am severely dissatisfied at the moment. Firstly, hating the artwork more than ever. Especially on Sam and Dean, the edgy and not very detailed drawing leaves the characters ugly and they look older than they should be. The content of this issue seems to stray more and more from canon:
a) We have a really severe inconsistency with canon as we see John leaving Lawrence in a station wagon. Correct me if I am wrong but I distinctly remember that John was sitting on the hood of the Impala with the boys after the fire in the Pilot. So he already had it when Mary was still alive and it makes no sense that he gets it from Mary's brother in this comic.
b) Missouri firmly stated in the first issue of the comic that the tooth they found belonged to the thing that killed Mary. Now we get to know that it's a hellhound tooth. From ?All Hell Breaks Loose Part I' we know that there was nobody but the YED around when Mary was killed, heck her demise was even only an accident. Why would the YED or any other demon (given that any demon and not only Crossroad demons can control hellhounds) send a hellhound after the kids only a couple of days later? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
c) The journal that John receives from Fletcher Garble looks nowhere near like the onscreen version of the journal.
d) From the Winchester journals we know that Mary's death was attributed to faulty wiring that caused a fire. Why would Mary's brother accuse John then to have let Mary died. Officially it was an accident. Also, we know that Mary's gravestone was set up by her uncle, a person Sam&Dean never met. Why would a distant relative put up the gravestone if her brother, who obviously was like a surrogate father to Mary (nice parallel to Dean & Sam btw), was there to take care of things? Again, that doesn't make much sense.
e) When Jakob is attacked by the hellhound he is still alive afterwards. Now I may be wrong, but why weren't they able to bring him to a hospital. The wounds should be easily explainable to an animal attack. The killing him off seems very harsh and I don't find it very believable that John would kill his own brother-in-law on the word of a mysterious stranger, at this early stage of his hunter career, when he is still confused about the whole deal. Okay, I get that Jakob may be infected/turned, whatever, by the hellhound and was bound to die anyway, but I am not sure that I believe that John would go through with such a insane plan, like dropping him off a cliff in his car.
So all in all I am not really sure where they want to head with this comics and they now started to really drift away from the few canon facts we know about that period of time. I am very disappointed with that.
a) We have a really severe inconsistency with canon as we see John leaving Lawrence in a station wagon. Correct me if I am wrong but I distinctly remember that John was sitting on the hood of the Impala with the boys after the fire in the Pilot. So he already had it when Mary was still alive and it makes no sense that he gets it from Mary's brother in this comic.
b) Missouri firmly stated in the first issue of the comic that the tooth they found belonged to the thing that killed Mary. Now we get to know that it's a hellhound tooth. From ?All Hell Breaks Loose Part I' we know that there was nobody but the YED around when Mary was killed, heck her demise was even only an accident. Why would the YED or any other demon (given that any demon and not only Crossroad demons can control hellhounds) send a hellhound after the kids only a couple of days later? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
c) The journal that John receives from Fletcher Garble looks nowhere near like the onscreen version of the journal.
d) From the Winchester journals we know that Mary's death was attributed to faulty wiring that caused a fire. Why would Mary's brother accuse John then to have let Mary died. Officially it was an accident. Also, we know that Mary's gravestone was set up by her uncle, a person Sam&Dean never met. Why would a distant relative put up the gravestone if her brother, who obviously was like a surrogate father to Mary (nice parallel to Dean & Sam btw), was there to take care of things? Again, that doesn't make much sense.
e) When Jakob is attacked by the hellhound he is still alive afterwards. Now I may be wrong, but why weren't they able to bring him to a hospital. The wounds should be easily explainable to an animal attack. The killing him off seems very harsh and I don't find it very believable that John would kill his own brother-in-law on the word of a mysterious stranger, at this early stage of his hunter career, when he is still confused about the whole deal. Okay, I get that Jakob may be infected/turned, whatever, by the hellhound and was bound to die anyway, but I am not sure that I believe that John would go through with such a insane plan, like dropping him off a cliff in his car.
So all in all I am not really sure where they want to head with this comics and they now started to really drift away from the few canon facts we know about that period of time. I am very disappointed with that.
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