THE HUNTRESS #4 (OF 6)
Review by: TheMythicalReader
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Art by MARCUS TO and JOHN DELL
Cover by GUILLEM MARCH
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Inexplicably, we are two-thirds through this mini-series and readers still do not know very much about Huntress, save for the fact that she has a penchant for pastries, Italian air, and felines. This lack of information seems odd to Alessandro and Christina as well. Alas, Helena rebuffs all our inquiries, instead opting to restate the purpose of her mission: to disrupt Moretti’s human trafficking operation. As has been reiterated throughout the series, Helena is against the exploitation of women and the people and institutions that enable it. This overly simplistic position, in all its agreeableness, appeals to the lowest common denominator and precludes a more complex, interesting story.
The systematic omission of details about Helena coupled with her wildly unambitious, undifferentiated stance on human trafficking borders on parody. This is the equivalent of the Miss America pageant where every contestant declares her life’s goal to be world peace. Repetition, ubiquity, and the lack of a nuanced--which is to say, serious--discussion render such claims meaningless, simultaneously discrediting the contestants and trivializing the cause. And just as pageant contestants jump through the requisite hoops, Helena’s behavior throughout the series seems predigested, unsurprising, and robotic. She repeatedly enumerates her enemies and systematically takes them down in a rhythmic, mechanistic fashion. Her internal monologue rarely deviates from anything tactical, further distancing the character from the reader.
This absence of specific details and idiosyncratic behavior--features that distinguish individuals--reduces Helena into an abstract representation of averageness. The book, in its treatment of contemporary social concerns and its depiction of how easily the dialogue around such issues can be rendered inconsequential, inadvertently exemplifies the very problems it examines. #sadsies
Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good