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Holy cow, this comic is worse than 99 Days! I guess Vertigo decided to publish a line of the worst possible crime comics they could find. There is so much to hate about this book, but I guess they should get points for including every trite and offensive cliche in existence.
The concept of two undercover men (one FBI, one police) involved in the same case without knowing the other is an undercover agent is fantastic, and yet that ripe concept is not explored here even a little bit as we mostly follow the agents separately and the two do not interact until the final moments and don't really have any meaningful scenes or feelings about the other. It is frankly bizarre that great idea is not explored for suspense, humor, drama, anything.I found this story hard to follo...
Surprised how much I liked this one.
Mediocre at best.
Gave up at page 53. Couldn't follow the story at all and what's worse I didn't care to.
No one writes dialogue like Gary Phillips, and this is one fast-moving cop-killing bullet of a story. The art is fantastic as well...It lived up to all the expectations raised at that Vertigo Crime panel at Comicon two whole years ago, that opening scene of white FBI agent and black cop with guns pulled on each other. I just don't know why I can't find the real cover on Goodreads.
Gary Phillips writes the most unconvincing crime story I have ever read. The dialogue is stiff and hackneyed and seems like it was pulled straight from MTV circa 1994.
This very twisty crime novel follows two protagonists. One a black undercover officer or the city's vice squad, working under a captain who's bucking to become the new Chief of Police. The other a white FBI agent working undercover to expose a possible terrorist plot, as for a superior looking for promotion. This story displays expertly the corruption of ambition, the secondary nature of justice in law enforcement, the lure of sex and money that cause a person to destroy their morals. Ultimately...
Illustrator Brian Hurtt brings is A-game (his only game, right?) on this one, but the writing just isn't up to snuff. Poorly paced and plotted, feels like Phillips' used the GN format to shop the story to TV/Film execs.
