Fatale #15 – Review

By: Ed Brubaker (story), Sean Phillips (art), Elizabeth Breitweiser (colors)

The Story: A windfall of (stolen) money and a beautiful (wounded) woman—lucky for him.

The Review: I was in a bad romance, once.  I won’t turn this into a confessional, but suffice to say, it was one of those things where the attraction was so strong that it overshadowed everything else—almost.  Even though all along I sort of knew she was wrong for me—wrong for anyone who wanted to live a peaceful life—that magnetism kept us in place for a long time, until our problems got to the point where even that couldn’t save the relationship.

So I get how romantic entanglements that seem doomed from the start can happen, and how you can get caught in that snare again and again, even against your wishes.  Granted, for the men in Jo’s life, this is more the byproduct of her supernatural powers than anything else, but that only makes their bewildered, desperate attachment to her more sympathetic.  They seem incapable of resisting her allure, even from a distance.