Bloody Justice
The mystery of the murders of mobsters is finally solved by Misty and Silver Sable, but the answer isn´t nice, since the Hand wasn´t involved at all in these crimes. This book started as a detective comic, starring Misty as main character, and it was suposed to be about a crime fighter scavenging for evidences in order to discover who´s responsbible for the mobsters´assassinations. Instead, it turned out ot to be much more than that, since Johnston offered a view of a new group of anti heroes or mercs, that didn´t want to come together in the first place, but united forces nonetheless to bring the perps into justice. With this stroke of genius, Johnston not only have writen the best Shadowland tie in, but landed the ground for Heroes for Hire, the new series launched december 2010. I like this series because of Welllington´s magnificent and accurate art, beautiful colors by Frank Martin Jr. and Johnston´s piercing and magnetic narrative, filled with interesting dialogues and an amazing plot, that made a perfect symbioses with the Shadowland main plot, without discharacterization of it´s purpose: being a series about police investigation and noir detective/crime novel. This is how every tie in should be: it has it´s own life, but it´s faithful to the main event. I also like this issue a lot because of it´s impressive ending, it really took me by surprise, and to see the group working together was awesome (since they´re a bunch of solo players, not accostumed in rolling with others). This, in my humble opinion, was the best Shadowland tie in, despite the fact that having Punisher in this book woiuld fit perfectly, I really don´t know why they´ve (Marvel´s editors and Johnston) to leave Castle out of this.
5 out 5
