Fairest #22 – Review

By: Marc Andreyko (story), Shawn McManus (art), Lee Loughridge (colors)

The Story: When Cinderella’s away, the mice come out to play—and flirt with noblewomen.

The Review: I’d like to directly address Gregory Lockard, editor of Fairest.  Mr. Lockard, I know that despite being a paying consumer, I have no right—or, rather, no power—to critique how you do your job.  This being America, however, I’m gonna do it anyway.  The point I want to stress to you is there’s a limit to how hands-off you can be with a writer’s product.  Andreyko’s arc has been quite inadequate, a problem you could have easily prevented.

For one thing, last issue should have been a blatant red flag to you that Andreyko was having pacing problems with his story, requiring extra scrutiny to avoid the same here.  Instead, you were apparently content to let Andreyko keep on his merry way, resulting in an issue nearly as unproductive as the first.  Quite frankly, the actual contents of both of these issues could and should have been fitted into one, an obvious point I’m distressed to see that you missed.