Vertigo, $2.50
Short Review: This one could run and run. Fun for all the family (over 18).
Hee. Garth Ennis is carving out a new medium here: Storytelling without subtlety. Not, you may argue, the first time this has happened, but it appears that he's trying it deliberately. How to end your first arc? Bring all the elements of it together, get some answers, give your protagonist a really big goal (which could be satisfied any issue) and get everyone you don't want dead to walk away. And then have a page with the word "Hints" at the top, with four panels indicating future story lines. Blatant foreshadowing, and anyone who complains can expect to be spitting teeth.
And it all works. The dialogue is great, the scope suitably large, and the humor, particularly around the sherriff's son, is incredibly black. Steve Dillon's art is as great as usual, although the faces are starting to merge together again. And the cover by Glenn Fabry is simply gorgeous. This could be a really good thing. The letter column from Garth claims he can go on till the turn of the century, for your information.
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