The story's not terrible - it's not really making the most of the mystery surrounding the Stranger's apparent normal family; no-one's questioning who the wife and kids are or where they've come from - but it's not bad.
What does hurt for me is reading the leaden, clunking dialogue that Didio has his characters, and particularly the villain in this issue, speak:
"Dawn breaks, and I must return to my unholy resting place."
Sweet Cthulhu, even villains in the 70's didn't utter such nonsense.
That's right, mate - you go ahead and unleash your demon fury on the bloke. See how that works out.
You know, when DeMatteis takes over, I hope he's doing the dialogue.
I just love that sort of thing from villains. I assume ghostly cowboys are given Ponderous Demon Dialogue lessons as soon as they arrive in Hell.
ReplyDeleteHaha! That's the only explanation, Martin!
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