By: Ian Brill (writer), Joshua Covey (art), Justin Stewart, Vladimir Popov & Zack Sterling (colors) & Pat Brosseau (letters)
The Story: Two young PI-ish ladies are “freelancers.”
Review: I hate to use a cliche term like “meh,” but that’s how this comic left me feeling: “meh.” The internet is so full of hyperbole that if you aren’t calling a comic the “greatest thing since Watchmen” it somehow means you hated it. That’s not the case here. Freelancers #1 is a perfectly fine comic; there are a lot of comics better and I presume there are many comics that are worse (although I don’t really know because I don’t read crappy comics).
The set-up is pretty basic: two young ladies have known each other since they were childhood orphans. Now they are bottom rung “freelancers” at a kinda private investigator agency. They’re kinda sexy and kinda sassy. They know kung-fu. They go out on cases and are jealous of the #1 freelancer at the agency. That’s the story…
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