After
a disappointing opening installment, VERMIN concludes in equally lacklustre fashion.
The
early frames of a fleeing Angel carrying Ashley away from the kidnappers
sets the tone for a story that features a lot of running around and very
little else.
So
we get Angel escaping from the kidnappers, Angel escaping from the infested
rats of the title, the kidnappers trying to escape from the rats and so
on, before Angel spends about a page beating up the source of the vermin's
power.
Dark
Horse's blurb also claims that we discover that this isn't the first time
Angel has had to deal with vermin, but this barely features in the plot
at all - just a couple of frames of Angel in New York in the 1960s. We
knew about this already, but at least Golden and Sniegoski could have
made it vaguely interesting. Christian Zanier's artwork isn't much better
either.
After
the disappointment of #12, it would unlikely that VERMIN would prove to be anything above an average story, but it doesn't even
get that far. As a one-part story, this might just have worked, but as
a two-parter it certainly doesn't.
