Comics Fondle

And down again. Well, not completely, but closer than it ought to be. Vaughan embraces his standard practice for the series again–shunning Tefé as a protagonist and instead showing the human response to her actions. Here, it works, but for a handful of dumb reasons. First and foremost, he’s not reminding the reader every other […]

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Once again–I’m not sure when the last time was, looking would depress me (wasted reading time and all)–Vaughan gets close to having a good comic book here. Tefé and Constantine go for a walk and talk about some stuff. Some of it’s cool stuff, like Tefé being an over-powered twit and her sidekicks being lame, […]

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Vaughan’s Swamp Thing now makes a bunch of sense. I thought he was just ignoring Mark Millar’s run, but he’s not. He’s shitting on the previous Swamp Thing comic and the work of those writers. He’s turned Swamp Thing père into an amoral monster to suit his lousy story about Team Tefé sitting around a […]

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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, […]

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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. […]

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