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Look at that panel four. I've gone all Sin City on you. And that background was surprisingly easy to do. Effects that this time last year I was doing by hand and taking hours over, I can now throw together in five minutes on Potatoshop. The time saved can go towards the art itself -- and if I may say so, it's some of my better work. For once, my constant bitching about never getting to draw action sequences has been proved wrong, and I actually managed to do a pretty good job of drawing them. Holly's very Miho-like in that panel, although Miho never smashed anyone's face in with a bit of pipe. The guy she's attacking even sort of looks a bit like Marv. Halifax, for his sins, is very much like Kevin, minus the Charlie Brown jumper.

The guy in the last panel holding the shotgun appears to be, for some reason I cannot fathom, Michael Chiklis of 'The Shield' fame, lately found in a crap rubber suit shouting 'It's Clobberin' Time' and wondering how such a promising career turned into shit so fast. However, unlike the Fantastic Four movie, his accomplice in this comic will not be Jessica Alba doing a strange impersonation of Brittany Murphy while trying to make a one-piece blue rubber gimp suit look remotely sexy, or, indeed, anything but the laughable monstrosity it is. Well done Marvel, you are going to sound the death knell for comic book movies for another decade.

Best bits: the action shots; the Sin City background.
Worst bits: the dodgy perspective on panel five; the Fantastic Four movie (technically not my fault, but so bad is that movie going to be that every human on earth will collectively share blame).