Dark Horse, $2.50
Short Review: Not as you might expect.
The Mask is famously full of funny violence. Evan Dorkin's Milk and Cheese strips are also famously full of funny violence. So when Evan gets to be the first writer other than the creator to write the Mask, you get... Something slower, and with characterisation, because Evan Dorkin is primarily a smart person, and knows what pigeon-holing is. After a wonderful opening sequence involving Nazis, Ninjas, Samurai, and an increasingly endangered South American tribe, we move to Sky City, and an artist crippled by an accident and consumed by grief and guilt tries to look after his daughter, who is still emotionally scarred after the same accident, which also killed her mother. After he gets the mask, much funny violence ensues, but that's to be expected. Peter Gross' art is as wonderful as always.
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