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"From the mind of New York Times Best-selling author and Eisner Award-winning author Neil Gaiman, Lady Justice is the living embodiment of justice, possessing oppressed women and giving them the ability to fight their tormentors. In times of trouble, the spirit of Justice appears before women and offers them the chance to take revenge on their male abusers."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The second run of Lady Justice’s own title starts with ‘Slow Death’ written by C.J. Henderson and pencilled and inked by Fred Harper who can draw a girl. It’s about smooth gigolo Enrici getting his just desserts from the woman in the blindfold. You could guess the ending from the start but it unfolded nicely.
Usually, there are story arcs that stretch over several issues with a different writer and artist for each arc. This resumes in issue # 2 with ’Control Freak’ a four-part yarn written by Rich Rainey and pencilled by Chris Marrinan with various inkers. Brigitte Diamond has been an assassin for some secret agency ever since Doctor Thorne messed with her mind. He’s quite different to the Doctor Thorne envisaged by Anthony Trollope. It was a good James Bond-style caper and a gorefest as usual. Marrinan’s art seemed to vary greatly. Pages 96-98 were very well rendered, reminding me somewhat of those old Batman stories pencilled by Irv Novick. In other places, it seemed to go a bit wonky or stylised, perhaps, but the storytelling was always clear and that’s the main thing.
Issues # 6-8 is another long story with the overall title ‘Woman About Town’. The script is by Daniel Brereton and the art by Fred Harper. Lady Justice helps Jordan Hackett, a parole officer whose sister has become involved with a naïve young criminal. She gets tangled up in a drugs war. This had interesting characters: a ruthless gang boss, a dumb henchman, a smart henchman and a few innocents caught up along the way. The ending was somewhat unexpected.
Alas, ‘Neil Gaiman’s Lady Justice’ didn’t succeed on its second run either and folded after number # 9, an interesting first part to a story about a ghetto schoolboy gang boss. I liked the principled Principal who had started out thirty years before with high ideals of educating the young and ended up bitter and disillusioned as things got worse and worse. He’s one of those whiny liberals who can‘t accept the new ways. Loser! Still, his heart was in the right place.
Plastering Neil Gaiman’s name all over this line of comics from the Sci-Fi Channel people didn’t guarantee success. However, Neil Gaiman’s Lady Justice Vol. # 2 is an excellent example of its time, the 1990s, and this volume is good value for money with over 200 pages and high production values. The stories are solid, the art generally capable. Worth a look for genre fans.
Eamonn Murphy
This review first appeared at https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/ ( )