Spitfire Down After One-Shot
Blimey - so this is Spitfire, is it? I`d had a brainstorm by the time I`d read her character analysis on the first page. I know I was in Comic-Book-Wilderness for a while but, all that had happened to Spitfire? I remember her as a brief character in The Invaders at the end of the `70s, but...
Not vampires again. Even I`m beginning to tire of them now. They used to make mean bad guys, and now they`re the heroes as well. I`ll avoid spoilers and giving away the plot, such as it is: Spitfire is in New York with her boyfriend, Blade (oh no...) and they`re on the trail of a haughty vampiress, Amelia Bertram - Hayes, who they suspect of selling information to some nasty organization, Mys - Tech...
I read this comic, and to be honest, I couldn`t make head nor tail of it. So, I read it again, and this time it was only vague. The trouble I found with Spitfire is - it doesn`t know what it wants to be.
We have playful banter and mumblings about love, between Blade and Lady Falsworth, and some oh-so-jolly lah-de-dah japes about the English and Americans. Then she`s in a dashed quandary about living as a vampire, and will she get...bored.
Jesus! She`s already reverted from old age to her teens...some time before, apparently.
And Blade? He has little of nothing to do in this...
Casagrande`s artwork kinda grows on you, reminds me of an older artist I just can`t put a name too. Nicest scenes are Spitfire`s clash with Bertram - Hayes in the finale.
Maybe, I wasn`t expecting all that vampire stuff again? Just be a vampire, or be a superhero, but don`t be both.
So, that was `Spitfire` for me, fortunately, it`s a one-shot.
oh, and another thing...
We (I`m English) don`t all have double barrelled names and come from the aristocracy, y`know? We don`t like warm beer neither, or all talk like we`ve got a mouth full of plums - you wanna take a walk down one of our inner-city high streets sometime. It`s time to move on...