National Comics: Looker #1 – Review

By: Ian Edginton (story), Mike S. Miller (art), Rex Lokus & Antonio Fabela (colors)

The Story: Careful, boys—these ladies can rip your heart out.

The Review: I’ve often spoken of these showcase titles as being perfect opportunities to explore new characters (or polishing off old ones so they seem like new), but amazingly, I didn’t realize until reading this issue is these titles are also great for exploring some new creators, too.  Having long felt DC’s writing staff could use some new blood (and its gang of artists as well, to a lesser extent), this could be a great way to test folks wanting to break into the mainstream.

With that in mind, you both understand and question Eginton’s reasoning in featuring Looker for his DC debut.  With such a glut of vampire fic already out there, who needs another one?  The choice seems especially unwise considering DC already has a whole series led by unnaturally slender, blood-sucking immortals.  Edginton would have to come at Looker from a completely different angle than Andrew Bennett and Mary, Queen of Blood, to make her worth reading.