by Lindsay Young, CMRO Contributing Writer
Huntress
Issue #4
Written by Paul Levitz, Art by Marcus To
Published: March 2012
Things are really starting to pick up in Huntress. Not that the series was slow or even uneventful before, but the time has come at last for Helena to well and truly demolish one of the scumbags we actually care about. This week, our titular heroine infiltrates the ship belonging to Moretti (the aforementioned scumbag), deftly taking out a host of goons and delivering swift (and unexpected) justice in cool, confident style.
As usual, Huntress has a great mix of action and suspense, developed mostly through Helena scouting out the territory, going over strategies in her head, and sneaking around before striking. This week, not only do we get the payoff of a confrontation between one of the major villains – The Chairman, our recently introduced Main Baddie, escapes unscathed for now – but we also get some fun character moments with Helena and her contacts, Christina and Alessandro, whose friendships continue to develop. They make a good support system for our heroine, and it’s nice to have some more positive characters around so that the utter villainy of the human traffickers doesn’t make the reader want to give up on all humanity.
My major – and only, really – issue with the series is just how boring the villains are. They’re pure evil, plain and simple, and every word out of their mouths only serves to re-establish their supreme lack of souls. The issue tries to pass it off as a result of their oppressive culture (with them as the uncaring oppressors of women) but it comes off as rather one-note. They’re just not very interesting. The irony of a lady hero swooping in to hand their asses to them is some fun irony, but that’s about where it ends.
Still, I can live without an interesting villain if the hero makes up for it, and Huntress continues to be absolutely worth the read.
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