Not sure I'm up to a full recap of this issue. I'll hit the high points:
-Hughie finally apologizes for being a gigantic douchenozzle.
-Painter Dude is, in fact, Mallory.
-Transvestite dude gets castrated.
I can't remember who guessed that Painter Dude would end up being Mallory, but congrats to whoever it was. I still feel like "drawing someone totally different" isn't the fairest or most creative way to set up a Reveal like this one. It's an example of a character doing something merely to fool the AUDIENCE, not the characters that they're interacting with. Hughie didn't know Mallory from Adam. There's no reason Mallory would have had to undergo massive facial reconstruction, grow three inches taller, lose 75lbs of muscle, and pick up a Scottish accent just to fool Hughie. All those things were done to fool us as readers, and it's a cheap gimmick.
Anyway, thus ends the most inexplicable spinoff in history. We are literally right back to where we were before the arc began. It wasn't a bad arc, but it was pointless. I don't feel brutalized like I did after reading Herogasm, but I do feel kind of confused and empty, like Galactus after eating the planet Poppup. (Oldtime Comic Geeks Unite!)
I guess at very least Annie had a chance to stand up for herself briefly. I kinda wonder why Hughie didn't just come out and tell her about the Boys, though. I guess he's not quite done holding the Idiot Ball.
-Hughie finally apologizes for being a gigantic douchenozzle.
-Painter Dude is, in fact, Mallory.
-Transvestite dude gets castrated.
I can't remember who guessed that Painter Dude would end up being Mallory, but congrats to whoever it was. I still feel like "drawing someone totally different" isn't the fairest or most creative way to set up a Reveal like this one. It's an example of a character doing something merely to fool the AUDIENCE, not the characters that they're interacting with. Hughie didn't know Mallory from Adam. There's no reason Mallory would have had to undergo massive facial reconstruction, grow three inches taller, lose 75lbs of muscle, and pick up a Scottish accent just to fool Hughie. All those things were done to fool us as readers, and it's a cheap gimmick.
Anyway, thus ends the most inexplicable spinoff in history. We are literally right back to where we were before the arc began. It wasn't a bad arc, but it was pointless. I don't feel brutalized like I did after reading Herogasm, but I do feel kind of confused and empty, like Galactus after eating the planet Poppup. (Oldtime Comic Geeks Unite!)
I guess at very least Annie had a chance to stand up for herself briefly. I kinda wonder why Hughie didn't just come out and tell her about the Boys, though. I guess he's not quite done holding the Idiot Ball.
) I view him as conservative, calculating and only personally using brute force when he can't figure out another way to get the job done... Kinda an American Roger Moore James Bond, not a Sean Connery James Bond... Definitely not a Daniel Craig James Bond (or a Nick Fury)!
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