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Die Hard With a Vengeance meets “Heroes” meets The Thing continues. I barely remember the first issue–for example, page three or four had to remind me it took place in Chicago (my hometown)–and I still don’t neccesarily believe the lead character in this issue is the same character as in the last issue… maybe it is though.

Shit, no, wait. It’s more like Volcano than the thing. But I can’t figure out who’s supposed to be playing the lead… maybe Matt Damon? Unfortunately, Paul Walker–on a bad day–would better essay the role of hero cop Urbanski. He’s the only cop on the streets in Dominion, besides the firefighters… if it were New York, I’d guess it were some anti-Giuliani, pro-9/11 firefighters thing, except it’s in Chicago and the last time firefighters were big in Chicago was Backdraft, right?

Anyway… Nelson’s handling of the blockbuster action sequences is fine. It’s his dialogue–awful–and his exposition–worse than awful, laughable to the point I wanted to stop reading it… it’s like he put in squared exposition boxes because the art wasn’t doing the storytelling, which it was most certainly doing.

Hamilton’s work looks a little rushed in parts, but he does the action stuff fine. It’s not his fault a giant fat lady eating cars (anyone else seen Dead Alive?) is one of the bad guys.

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