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“She escorts us to a part of town that smells like a hangover.” How would Tefé know what a hangover smells like? Should I really be complaining though, as Vaughan is finally getting around to his main character.

But not really. Thinking reading through a story (at least a three parter) would be a good idea, I continued after #8. Mistake.

Issue eight deals with some leftovers from the original series–so does issue nine, I guess, and it suggests either Vaughan read Nancy A. Collins’s Swamp Thing work or he had a decent crib sheet–when Tefé goes looking for a band called Arcane because, obviously, it’s not a word or anything and she’s stupid so of course it was something to do with Anton.

The issue’s not terrible–except Vaughan goes ahead and turns Tefé into a bad guy, similar to how he does in Ex Machina (when the mayor turns in the voodoo chick, not when Vaughan turns him in to a Bush-loving douche).

The next issue, number nine, has Vaughan’s best sequence in the series so far. A dream sequence where Tefé discovers more stuff about plants. One of the problems is how inconsistent Vaughan is with Tefé’s experience with plants. For example, she’s surprised they dream. You’d think she’d know. I’m not sure where the dream sequence dates in relation to Promethea, but it’s very effective.

However, Vaughan ends the issue on a serious down note, with Swamp Thing turning in to Preacher (a road trip for three). Real lame, the relationship between the two dudes in love with Tefé, super-lame.

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