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Thank goodness Vaughan is so trite and obvious, otherwise I’d had to give this issue a positive review. Finally, Tefé’s narrating (in a letter to her dad). About four pages in, I realized she was going to tear up the letter, because that’s just what kind of bad writer Vaughan is… and then she does. I love being proved right in the span of eight minutes.

But, really, otherwise, it’s a decent issue. The Alec and Abby cameo is lame and it seems like Vaughan didn’t read Millar’s run on the previous series (why would he? it’s outstanding), but Vaughan plays a now classic–and probably classic when he wrote it–scene at the end. Think Sophie’s Choice.

Tefé’s Inuit sidekick is also lame, but there’s a hint at some good solid humor in the future, with agriculture agents after Tefé to solve shortages and such. It’s goofy enough it could be like Ennis and his handling of American bureaucracy, but that outcome would require Vaughan not screw anything up… which seems impossible at this point.

D

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