![]() Sienkiewicz inks here over the pencil work of Mary Wilshire, whose work I am not familiar with but provides airy, widescreen compositions that suggest a journeywoman talent absolutely above this shit, while colorist Michael Higgens brings a really deep palette of solid blues, reds, purples and yellows that feels refined and serious to the point of seeming out-of-place. The talent in question is Bill Sienkiewicz, of Elektra: Assassin, Stray Toasters, and not getting done drawing an Alan Moore comic fame. Why? Because these issues - 35 and 36 - are tie-ins with the Jim Shooter-architected quarter-consuming line-wide crossover Secret Wars II, of course they were going to be garbage! However, this garbage has a more fragrant stench than others, and a smell I love, the stink of wasted talent. ![]() Indeed, in retrospect these are probably my favorite issues of the stack. Now we hit the first genuine sign of this series’ mediocrity, but at this point I was not especially phased. Previously, I gushed about two fairly strong issues of a comic that overall is kinda okay. ![]() TRAPPED IN HELL WITH THE NEW MUTANTS: PART TWO: BEYONDER THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS ![]() Features Trapped in Hell with the New Mutants ![]()
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