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According
to Dark Horse's blurb, Vermin kicks off their Autumnal
series of "six stories intended to scare the pants
off you."
Hmmm...more
like six stories to bore the pants off you, if this is opening
installment is anything to go by.
Leaving
the rat-infested Angel Investigations behind, Cordelia's vision
leads Angel to explore a derelict amusement park in search of
a kidnapped young girl.
Of
course, what Angel doesn't know but the reader does, is that
this park is home to some sort of demonic vermin infestation,
called up by a fortune teller in 1956.
And,
err, that's about it for the first part. There's a possible
inference of child abuse amongst the kidnappers and we don't
know what happened to the two pest exterminators in the 1978
sequence (and whether it's a coincidence that 22 years separates
that year from both 1956 and 2000), but that's about it.
A
couple of things also seem a little derivative. The difficulty
of drawing new monsters is shown by the one at the start, who
seems like the sort that's cropped up a few times in the comics
and the ending doesn't seem all that different from one of the
cliffhangers to the Lovely, Dark and Deep story in Dark
Horse Presents.
A
fairly uninspiring story from Golden and Sniegoski, and the
artwork doesn't really help matters much either. BACK
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VERMIN
Chapter 1
Writers: CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
and TOM SNIEGOSKI
Pencils: CHRISTIAN ZANIER
Inks: ANDREW PEPOY & MARK HEIKI & CLAYTON BROWN
Cover: MIKE MIGNOLA
Cover variations: art, photo
RATING:
3/10
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