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thecommonswings's review
4.0
Milligan has always been a bit of an odd comics writer because he’s happy to do traditional genre stuff as much as he is genuinely mind bending stuff. This is how a writer survives and thrives in 2000AD after all. Sometimes he seems to struggle with superhero books, because it feels like he can’t do the episodic bits as well as he could the Grant Morrisonesque bonkers bits. But this is a lovely surprise - taking a spy thriller and not so much subverting it as actively undermining the certainties of the genre. Chance should be a chisel jawed hero but is increasingly riddled with doubts and the whole question of identity and what actually makes up a person causes a huge shadow over the whole book. They’re also both pacy thrillers too and never lose sight of that. The art is also excellent, especially Pulido’s work on Final Cut which is cartoony and fluid and uses shadow brilliantly
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