Wetworks #3
	Story Title: 'The Blood-Red Game' (Part 3 of 3) Writer: Mike Carey Penciller: Whilce Portacio Inker: Richard Friend Colorist: Wendy Broome Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher Cover: Whilce Portacio Variant Cover: Jason Pearson Asst. Editor: Kristy Quinn Editors: Alex Sinclair & Scott Dunbier Published by: Wildstorm Productions
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

Another month, another issue and the Wetworks ride continues, ride down the slope into confusion that is. Even though a few things fall into place and the characters (and their interactions with each other start to make sense), as a whole this plot is just as big of a newbie-reader scare as the previous two issues were. Still, as a whole the slide does slow down and isn’t as rapid as the first issue or even the last one. Heck, in a few places things even look up.

The issue starts with the trio of Col. Jackson Dane, Persephone (the vampire) and the mysterious being Ab-Death tracking the vampire they tried to but failed to find and apprehend last time around. The first half spent on checking the clues (one of which includes a rather gruesome nightclub massacre of over forty people) they play out the second part battling the said vampire and the frenzying out of control Persephone. Called Vascar, it is revealed that this fellow might not be what he comes across as on first sight.

As with Vascar, the captured (and freed by Rachel Rhodes, Mother One), Sebastian Ashe isn’t who he seems to be, or to be clear, he is who he says he is i.e. a police inspector. Having appropriated Col. Dane’s whereabouts, Mother One and Ashe track them, finding them just in time to save the Colonel from being shot/killed by Vascar. With Ab-Death out of commission (taken down by yet another mysterious entity, one who is in league with Vascar) and Persephone unconscious (after Dane TK-ed her), the responsibility to find the escaped Vascar falls on the shoulders of Dane, Mother One and Ashe. That and more will come around next issue, as also more about whatever or maybe wherever is Thea Mater.

Conclusion: With these first few issues rumored to be ‘time forwarded’ versions of old stories, I do hope that the ones that follow it are more together in, well, in what they are trying to tell/do.

RATING: 7/10