Re: Vigilante - Anyone surprised? Anyone reading? A little Question too

charles.knight@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'd pretty much agree - I wasn't quite as quick as you but it was
> pretty obvious from the end of the first issue who Vigilante was.
>
> This series has been far too slow for my liking - I wasn't hoping for a
> straight punisher ripoff but I was hoping the action quota would be far
> higher than it has been. A mystery that is obvious from the first issue
> is not much of a replacement.

OK, maybe I didn't see it from page one. ;-P I think the end of the
first issue is plenty fast enough; definitely fast enough to ruin the
story and make you wonder why you had to wait 4 issues to find it out.

To me, the old Vigilante, when at it's best (and not doing mysterious
spirit Indian powers) was what the Punisher has morphed more into now -
the vigilante (small v) who encountered more real life situations, in
grittier environments, with often more tragic results. Punisher was
catharsis - bad guys getting what was coming to them when the system
wouldn't. Vigilante was going after perpetrators of horrible crimes,
that we got to see, or the end results thereof. I mean...even Alan
Moore did a Vigilante story.

This....this is neither- not action, or story...just yaaawwwwnnnnn.

Chris C.

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