After an almost two year hiatus (and a 12-issue-long Moon night series during the interim), Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev have finally brought back their creator-owned series Scarlet. The series doesn't miss a beat for having been gone all that time. For Scarlet Rue, it's only been a matter of weeks since her big rally in issue #5 and the resulting grenade attack that forced her to lie low. Now more popular than ever with the disenfranchised public, Scarlet is ready to take her campaign against crooked authoritarians to new heights.
To be perfectly honest, Scarlet doesn't speak to me on a political or allegorical level as aptly as a book like DMZ does. In real world America, the sorts of injustices perpetrated by dirty cops and crooked politicians are usually more subtle and far-reaching than simply pulling out a gun and shooting people who don't deserve it. Usually. It's all too easy for Scarlet to speak truth to power in this comic because that power is so blatantly and flamboyantly evil in all the right moments.
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