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This week's obligatory pointless miniseries
is Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive #3, which is
showing no signs of picking up.
It's the usual story, I'm afraid.
This is not a desperately bad story as such. It's just
not good enough to justify its presence in an X-books line
which is still more than large enough without "so what"
miniseries cluttering the shelves.
The series is sticking firmly to the
template that it established in the first two issues.
Lots of excessively violent fighting in low lighting.
And as before, while Greg Scott's artwork is all very nice and
moody, he doesn't do very clear fight scenes. Characters
have a tendency to pop up from nowhere, and he continually
"crosses the line" from panel to panel. Consequently,
while the individual panels are fine, there isn't much flow to
his action sequences. This is a shame given that the
script has donated so much space to them.
The story reveals this issue that the nasty
dead people are in fact mad scientists possessing the bodies
of dead Russian soldiers. Unfortunately by this point
I've pretty much forgotten what their evil scheme was meant to
be in the first place, let alone why I should care.
The high point of the issue is a rather
nice sequence of Bonnie phoning home to her parents.
Nothing actually happens in it, but it does have some nicely
believable dialogue that goes some way towards selling Bonnie
as a character rather than a plot device.
Nevertheless, this is another safely
missable issue.
Rating: C+
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