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By Bill Willingham & Shawn McManus (Vertigo)
ISBN 1-84576-194-4
Bill Willingham is certainly on a roll these days. Not only is he doing stand-out work on Shadowpact (ISBN 1-84576-533-8), but he’s also writing one of the best adult titles in the world, namely Fables. He also seems to have the odd moment to dash off the occasional miniseries. It’s a pity he can’t draw as well. No, wait, he can do that really well too.
Thessaly, for those of you not in the know, is the last of the immortal, and extremely deadly, Thessalian Witches. She first appeared in The Doll’s House story arc from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, before eventually spinning off in to her own miniseries (also written by Willingham and collected as part of the Taller Tales graphic collection).
This second solo outing sees her reunited with Fetch, the ghostly agglomeration of the uncounted thousands of people, demons, gods and monsters Thessaly has killed over the millennia of her existence. He/it is stalking her in his perpetual – and inexplicable – quest to bed her, when he inadvertently unleashes the one thing in the universe she cannot kill, and sets it on a path to her destruction.
How they thwart this inevitable doom provides a light, fluffy blend of RomCom, road trip and macabre horror delightfully illustrated by the ever enjoyable Shawn McManus. Chilling it ain’t, but a splendid read for fantasy fans, nonetheless.
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