• 9.0
  Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson Oct 14, 2009

  I'll say this for Garth Ennis: he can take something that should be horrifying and somehow turn it on it's head and make you forget that it should be such. He did it in Preacher (notably with Arseface, but to a lesser extent with Cassidy and even the Saint of Killers) and he does it here with the story of Mother's Milk. Nobody ever thinks that their life is unusual. They lived it, after all... But this issue is remarkably subtle about the question of whether the now adult, 6′8″ Mother's Milk still has to draw his namesake from it's source, and it's strange how engaging his story becomes. The death of his brother starts out ridiculous, going from farcical to horrifying to tragic in the space of a few panels, and the reaction of his father to the loss of a child is absolutely unbearable. What's most amazing about this story is how the telling of it draws us in, makes us see that this life may have had it's oddnesses, but it wasn't really all that much more unusual than any of Read Full Review

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