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Victor Santos is one of the best graphic novelists of today
A poor man’s Sin City. It borrows heavily from the misogyny, but somehow is less fun. Thankfully it is short and will be down the memory hole in a week.
The story seems to jump ahead many years, to when the Black Kaiser is an old man living in retirement, but he comes across a crime he cannot ignore and gets back into business one last time. Nothing we haven’t seen before. The final bullet is an effective moment in a book largely devoid of them. How can a series about a killer assassin miss the mark so often?
Really enjoyable still and entertaining, felt I liked the previous volumes better, and it was cool they gave it a modern take on the assassins and seeing a grizzled Kaiser was great, but I feel like I've seen this type of story a hundred times since I've always been into action films and I love low budget JCVD, Schwarzenegger, Steven Siegal, Snipes films, so I guess I wanted something unique. But it's a great tribute to those old flicks.
This was the best I've read of the Polar stories. It's the most Richard Stark - Parker like as the Black Kaiser has gotten old and is lying low. That still doesn't stop him from laying waste to a gang that threatens a friend. That ending was brutal. Santos definitely is emulating Frank Miller's Sin City but I'm OK with that.Received a review copy from Dark Horse and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.
