Vertigo, $2.50
Short Review: The calm before the storm. Recommended.
I've got to stop reading the next-issue pieces at the back of Ghostdancing (not that it matters: next issue will be obviously short of them). From last month, I knew there would be two deaths, and the previewed cover showed the spiritual release of White-Buffalo-Woman. This month's preview shows us the tone of the final issue, which we could probably have guessed, given Jamie Delano's unwillingness to back out of cataclysmic endings, and not much else. This issue, Cody finds a way to control Brother Christopher, and White-Buffalo-Woman wakes up, and starts to dance. This is accompanied by her tale, and teaches Brother Christopher about his heritage and the way of the world. Either I'm mellowing in my old age, or Delano's prose has improved since Animal Man; when I was reading the stories of Indian legend and White Man's Evil, I felt I was being entertained rather than patronised. Whatever. The art is still Richard Case's finest, and the book is still good for the soul.
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