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art_cart_ron's review
3.0
The main body of the story (issues 1-12) start off beautifully, such a fun set-up - then it peters out and falters through about 40% to the end - - but the follow-up short (issues 12-15) has the job of playing clean up to the rushed finish, and those three issues are really good again.
Published at an awkward point in comics, and flogging a few dead horses w/ characters learning that gay people walk among us - which probably felt like progress at the time, and now feels awkward and heavy-handed.
I would have liked the dynamics of The Bred vs. The Born to be explored more deeply - mortals vs. faeries, in half a dozen interesting configurations, was a really fun backdrop. Constantine at the center of a long-standing siege was fun, too.
Somehow, Tim is written as the least interesting character in the book. Bizarre - b/c Tim Hunter in some pretty clear ways, was the most direct precursor to Harry Potter. The times were ripe to make him the Vertigo HP, and the ball was dropped. Maybe deadlines and other circumstances damaged the book. Whatever the case - I had fond memories of the series, was previously missing a few floppies, filled in my run and read it through. Glad I didn't follow my instinct to toss it out after issue 12.
Published at an awkward point in comics, and flogging a few dead horses w/ characters learning that gay people walk among us - which probably felt like progress at the time, and now feels awkward and heavy-handed.
I would have liked the dynamics of The Bred vs. The Born to be explored more deeply - mortals vs. faeries, in half a dozen interesting configurations, was a really fun backdrop. Constantine at the center of a long-standing siege was fun, too.
Somehow, Tim is written as the least interesting character in the book. Bizarre - b/c Tim Hunter in some pretty clear ways, was the most direct precursor to Harry Potter. The times were ripe to make him the Vertigo HP, and the ball was dropped. Maybe deadlines and other circumstances damaged the book. Whatever the case - I had fond memories of the series, was previously missing a few floppies, filled in my run and read it through. Glad I didn't follow my instinct to toss it out after issue 12.
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