Fatale #10

Beautiful things can be destructive, fatal and often someone's path cannot be changed, no matter how much you try to avoid it or even leave oblivion takes the course of your life, that's the ultimate conclusion of Fatale's second arc story. In this amazing book, where fiction mingles with reality, the aparently "immortal' Josephine faces head on with his persecutor, Hansel: his blindness affected not only his ability for sight, but also tempered with his judgement, because he's so obsessed about Josephine that he confused her as a victim, as a beautiful thing harmless, but she will prove that she can defend herself properly. Josephine also deals with the nature of her person, coming to the harsh conclusion that she can't escape who she is. Miles was a very interesting character in this second arc story, really enjoyed reading about a third grade actor, with a drug addiction, falling in love with Jo and aiding her to find the book and prevent her from falling into Hansel's hands. I love a good noir novel and Brubaker definitely delivered the best story in this year of this genre, he's a master of the dark elements, the shadow narrative, he made Cthulhu an interesting thing to me, that's a great victory in my opinion (for instance I hated Moore's Neonomicon). Bringing that up, I believe all the credit for this spectacular comic book is due for the amazing creative team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (And the beautiful colors of Dave Stewart). It's not often that you find such a fine in tune artist and writer and they deserve all the praise for delivering this fantastic novel! Definitely a top ten of 2012!