Shadowpact #5

Writer: Bill Willingham Artist: Steve Scott Publisher: DC Comics Critic Reviews: 1
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    Comics Bulletin - Geoff Collins Sep 26, 2006

    Writer Bill Willingham and the rest of the creative team have been doing a decent job of mixing the hokey aspects with the super hero/magic genre of the book. My only problem, and I may regret saying this in an e-published document, is that I dont like how they changed Detective Chimps outfit. In Day of Vengeance, he had on a Sherlock Holmes coat and hat with a t-shirt that said "You Suck." Now he looks like a character from Planet of the Apes. What would be great is if they based his look on Hunter S. Thompson (Father of gonzo-journalism, writer of Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, and god-father of blogs). They would not have to change much; though they dropped the alcoholic part of his character, he still chain smokes and seems to just wander around making witty observations. For instance, when they are explaining how the door to the Oblivion Bar works (it changes, but potentially any door can lead to it), he says, Remember when it was little Timmy Lipmans closet door for a few Read Full Review

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