There aren't a lot of comics in my collection form Now Comics, so I thought I'd read through them all. Be warned: two of them are Married...With Children comics that are likely to be just awful. But we'll persevere, shall we.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I opened this comic up this morning, but leading off with a Bill Sienkiewicz cover is a bold move. The comic within, actually, doesn't disappoint. It's intriguing and mysterious, following the life of a, as one FBI agent puts it, "contract serial killer." The series runs five issues, and I hope there's some resolution. I'm of a mind to pick this one up when I see it. I'd like to see how things turn out.
From an aesthetic, narrative as well as visual, perspective, this is a very, very early 90s comic. The art reminds me of Steve Yeowell's work on The Invisibles, and the story, following a very definite anti-hero through his macabre life, smacks of the sorts of stories we see in early Vertigo. As I say, I don't have a lot of Now Comics stuff in the collection, certainly not enough to get a sense of whether or not this comic was indicative of their output, or aberrant somehow. It doesn't bear much resemblance to Vector, and certainly not to Married... .
Will the strangely charismatic serial killer avoid capture by the canny FBI agent? There's an excellent chance I'll never know.
More to come...
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