Do you think the only way to stop me is to kill me?

The People’s Temple is a very simple story told very well. Sure, it’s essentially retreading the same ground as The Aztecs from 1964, but does so in a way that explores the same themes, but comes to an entirely different conclusion.

This story becomes less about preserving history because of how it will affect the future, and more about the fact that you simply can’t change nature. Dorlan as a character, is evidence of this. He occupies a world where the oppressors and the oppressed can switch at the drop of a hat. I hate to sound like a cliché villain, but this is a place where there is no good and evil, only power, and those yet to possess it.

The main antagonists are creatively described through their spirit animals of choice, and Sam has a fair bit of development over the span of barely 50 pages. Sure, this is just another potential origin story for Stonehenge, but I do like the idea of it being something purely historical. There are no aliens or monsters to soften the blow, just the unrivalled brutality of human kind, and this is what Sam has to take away from the adventure.