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PISTOLWHIP: THE YELLOW MENACE
by Jason Hall and Matt Kindt
Review by Mark Campos
(Top Shelf Productions,
www.topshelfcomix.com)
Second in a series about a 1930s detective and his culture-reference strewn world. The previous book (which I haven't seen yet) won all sorts of acclaim, but this one is a disappointment. The story is unsurprising, which is fatal to mystery stories: the detective and his pals moof around, the criminal is exactly who you think he will be, and some loose ends (introduced in the previous book?) don't get tied. And the art is too loose for this sort of thing, producing heartbreaking pages like the one beautifully Photoshopped to look like an old dime comics cover, but the line art is full of clams. Could be better.
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