Why spend so many years developing a world and characters for your readers to care about, creating conflicts that demand resolution, only to destroy it all. Ironic, given the series' name, but more than that, it feels like an outright betrayal of the story's core themes and narratives. Thus, Harap Alb Continua ended with pretty much an apocalyptic flooding of the entire world, wiping the slate clean for a continuation that most likely will never occur. just as much of an inhuman monster as the rest of them. Futhermore, after a lot of buildup about making the world right by summoning an all-powerful mother-goddess to stop humanity's corruption and the mad games of the gods, said goddess turned out to be. The ending of the 38th issue is so abrupt that I spent a whole day making sure there wasn't some missing final issue I was supposed to read after it. Unfortunately none of this was resolved in the comics. At its best, the comic and the accompanying novels (Furia Oarba & Fluviul Soaptelor) played off one another, setting up and paying off themes revolving around human nature and arrogant, all-powerful gods playing with the lives of lesser creatures. What started out as a retelling of an old folk tale spun out into this hugely complex and complicated fantasy setting, with vultures and histories and characters intertwining in fascinating ways. Now that it's over, I feel it was better than the sum of its parts. For 5 years this was pretty much the only decent (or existing) Romanian comic available.
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