Fairest #11 – Review

By: Lauren Beukes (story), Inaki Miranda (art), Eva De La Cruz (colors)

The Story: What’s up, boy?  Who fell down the well?

The Review: When I wrote the first draft of this review, I originally praised DC for maintaining its interest in Vertigo, because honestly, there’s where most of the really original (if not always outstanding) titles are.  Then I found out from their April solicitations that Saucer Country, a title I only recently declared as one of my favorites, was getting canned.  Once again, I prove to have a gift for clinging to things that are destined to leave me.*

Anyway, before my enthusiasm got mercilessly shot down, I also made a point of commending DC for using Vertigo as a convenient way of cultivating talent to potentially leverage them for their mainstream books later.  What brought about this now-premature approval was this mostly amazing issue of Fairest, which makes me feel the smartest choice would be to let Beukes pitch an ongoing Vertigo title of her choice before priming her as a natural successor to Justice League Dark or Sword of Sorcery.