Lisa, Bettie's troublemaking Italian doppelganger, just wants to be reunited with Davide, her missing boyfriend. Too bad that her relatives are on her trail - and that those relatives are members of a powerful Mafia clan!
BETTIE PAGE #2 stops a brief kidnapping attempt and frees the gang to begin a lengthy series of montage flashbacks to explain everything happening. Normally, all-exposition issues are a downer, but the backstory is interesting, and the way its presented is visually fun, so this issue is a keeper. Read Full Review
Andolfo and Blengino have established a story that seems familiar enough without feeling tedious. Given the universal recognition of Bettie, there might be a tendency to want to take the character in a direction that would be more weird and abstract simply for the sake of contrasting against how iconic a figure she is. Andolfo and Blengino have found a perfect spot for Bettie in a surprisingly enjoyable shallow mystery. Theyre also managing to engage the reader in the peripheral characters. The charm of the current series might well run out in a few issues, but by then, the story will most assuredly have come to a close. Everything in the series is so well-balanced. Read Full Review
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