Can you like and hate a book at the same time? Because I liked this and I hated this. I think it was a solid story, but it was poorly told. I don't know who Gary Phillips is, whether he's a comics writer or if this is his first experience in the medium, but his storytelling was very clumsy and in places, very cliched. I think in someone else's hands, this story may have been executed better. It reads kind of choppy the way he jumps from scene to scene. It's unsettling sometimes. But the story itself, like I said, is solid. It's a fresh take on a classic DC anti-hero and I could definitely read more, but the stories would need a lot of work first.
Vigilante: Southland
Written by: Gary Phillips
Illustrated by:Elena Casagrande, Moritat
DC Comics
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