{"id":3671,"date":"2009-07-07T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2009-07-06T18:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:14:15","slug":"mighty-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/07\/07\/mighty-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Howard Chaykin<\/strong>, with Don Cameron<\/strong>, Kurt Hathaway<\/strong> & Dave Stewart<\/strong> (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 1-56389-930-2<\/p>\n

Don’t let the outfits fool you: it’s not just another kinky love story…<\/p>\n

Oddly released under the DC rather than Vertigo imprint, this is a story about crime in the big city and of the compromises individuals must make to achieve their purposes.<\/p>\n

Delaney Pope is a rough, tough cop on a corrupt force who is fed up with seeing the scum she arrests get away with murder – or worse. Lincoln Reinhardt is a slick, liberal defense lawyer constantly thwarting the frames and set-ups of those cops. He often clashes with Pope in the course of his job. They both loathe each other with a passion.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to either they both assuage their work-day frustrations by putting on masks and costumes to beat the crap out of criminals (with or without badges) in the commission of their crimes – where there are no doubts about guilt, innocence or mitigations.<\/p>\n

The thrill of these nocturnal forays inevitably lead to a meeting of “Skylark” and “Iron Angel”, and a tenuous, teasing team-up when separate cases bring them together against the city’s first criminal mastermind. Not knowing each other’s real identity, but afraid to unmask and lose that so-tantalising tension, the pair have to decide what’s most important, the actual or the promised…<\/p>\n

This delightfully fizzy adult romp prods all the fetishistic trappings of superhero storytelling as the brassy and whimsical writer\/artist (with computer effects by Cameron, lettering from Hathaway and colours by Stewart) blends riffs from The Shop Around the Corner<\/em>, The Thin Man<\/em>, Pat and Mike<\/em> and even Adam’s Rib<\/em> with a plethora of crime caper movies to produce a costume drama in the unmistakable Chaykin manner.<\/p>\n

Clearly the pilot for an unrealized longer series, Mighty Love<\/strong> is a fast and stylish little oddity that reads well and looks great – so if all you want is a good time; Baby, look no further…
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2003 Howard Chaykin, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Howard Chaykin, with Don Cameron, Kurt Hathaway & Dave Stewart (DC Comics) ISBN: 1-56389-930-2 Don’t let the outfits fool you: it’s not just another kinky love story… Oddly released under the DC rather than Vertigo imprint, this is a story about crime in the big city and of the compromises individuals must make to … <\/p>\n

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