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Lady Death: Dark Horizons
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Story Title: 'Dark Horizons'
Writer: Brian Pulido
Penciller: Wellington Alves
Inker: Gicelle Archanjo
Cover by: Juan Jose Ryp
Editor in Chief: William Christensen
Published by: Avatar Press
'Lady Death' created by Brian Pulido |
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Reviewed by:
Bruce Logan |
A one-shot, this is one of those fill-in stories that are more
towards character ‘history’ building than anything else. With the fresh
start/reboot that her character has gotten (ever since Chaos Comics came under
the Avatar umbrella), Lady Death is having to rebuild everything from scratch.
For one, instead of the hell realm that she used to be a ruler of, this Lady
Death resides in a ‘magical’ world (one that has more of a medieval setting,
unlike the present time i.e. 20th/21st century setting of
the Chaos days). Similarly, she has lost all of her ‘Chaos’ supporting
characters, pets and armaments. This includes her sword, Apocalypse …and that is
what this story about.
It starts by Lady Death returning to the ‘shop’ that she got her sword from (not
her Apocalypse blade but some other one). Duped by the seller who said that the
sword would have magical properties, LD is not at all happy. The shopkeeper who
is a sort of intermediary, sets to take her to the person who made the sword
(and who sold it to LD in the first place), or at least that is what he tells
LD. In reality, he takes her to some monster who he had made a deal with, the
deal being the delivery of an albino, which in this case is LD.
As for the monster and what he wants with an albino, well, it is nothing more
than to torture one. Maybe it was an albino who made him the way he is, or maybe
it is just a fetish that he had, sort of like a medieval-BDSM. What he does not
know and what leads to his doom, meaning death, is that this isn’t just any run
of the mill albino. Even though he is able to inhibit LD’s powers (by some
powers of his own), he cannot inhibit her strength, something he realizes all
too late.
The artwork is in the same style as any other LD story, meaning, it is good.
Kudos to Wellington Alves (pencils) and Gicelle Archanjo (inks). The cover, (the
regular version in my case) is as always, one of the best things about the
story. Juan Jose Ryp draws some great covers (even if his ‘lips’ do tend to be a
bit too full sometimes). Conclusion: Nice enough
story, but this one and a few other one-shots & minis make me want to read a
full ongoing LD title, and by that, I do not mean just the ‘Medieval Lady Death’
maxi-/mini-series. RATING: 7/10 (Almost 7.5)
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