There’s plenty good and bad about this issue of Fanfare. In part 3 of the Shanna the She-Devil story, Shanna keeps failing at saving people from assassination. Yet, each victim mysteriously turns up alive with no signs of trauma. Even the blood has disappeared! It’s pretty captivating up till the writer decides to turn this chapter into his crusade against porn. I’m not arguing pro or con, it’s just all of a sudden the story shifts from these botched murders to having the villains mount a soap box in a thinly veiled attack on Larry Flynt.
The same goes for the backup feature. It starts off as a good story about a neighborhood’s prejudice against the interspecies marriage of Scarlet Witch and the Vision. Then it changes course into this weird zombie tale in which the center of the town’s evil is a church. Plus, the villain starting off as an alien and then becoming a malevolent spirit comes straight from left field.
Great starts to both tales, they both just have awful second acts.
Rating: 5 out of 10 stars.
Rating: 5 out of 10 stars.
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