SAM AND TWITCH CASE FILES #1/#2
Back in the day, when the title first came out, I had the first dozen or so of SPAWN, mainly because it had a different feel to its use of colour, but I never paid it much attention, and I certainly never saw its universe develop to the extent characters like Sam & Twitch became involved, so I come to this series afresh.
Sam (ultra-Bad cop) and Twitch (weary good cop) are on a case Sam doesn’t want to lose, so worked up he badly beats an informant, whose mother complains to their boss, and both get suspended as Sam has been too much of a loose cannon lately. This puts a strain on the duo’s relationship. And that’s pretty much it for issue one until an old police academy colleague of Twitch calls him asking for his help with a case, the final double page spread indicating just why. Cleverly done.
In Issue two there’s virtually no Sam as Twitch goes to a pleasant little town to take his old friend up on his offer. Not like he has anything else to do. He’s told it’s serial killer stuff, then allowed to settle in. Meanwhile a homeless man runs into trouble.
And again, that’s it. Slow moving, but very nicely drawn.
I won’t be collecting it but Spawn fans may relish some in-depth dealings with these characters?
SAM AND TWICH via Forbidden Planet (very cheap!)
CATWOMAN #64
The cover art on this series is so good I have been collecting all the issues with cats on, and even some of the variants. The story, as far as I can follow it, is good too, so I don’t know why some people have been moaning about it on youtube review channels.
Catwoman is aware people are after her. People are always after her. She’s got to complete certain tasks for someone and she has been granted nine lives to help her on her way with the most dangerous jobs. Some of her many adversaries are banding together to track her down and either turn her or kill her, even though they know this is currently a tall order.
Meanwhile Catwoman wants to go off grid, and knows to do this requires something drastic. She needs to go into space! She steals a sonic plane prototype, reaches orbit, locates the satellite she needs to damage, but is pursued by a second prototype craft, captured by the demolition squad, and on the return journey home during a big fight the plane is damaged so re-entry could get very expensive in just how many lives Selina will lose.
I don’t call that a boring storyline, I think it’s pretty impressive.
More covers? Very well then…
Cat-eared helmet!