Comics: X-Terminators #3

X-TERMINATORS #3
December 1988
"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?"
Writer: Louise Simonson
Penciler: Jon Bogdanove
Inker: Al Milgrom
Letterer: Joe Rosen
Colorist: John Wellington
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor In Chief: Tom DeFalco

The all-ages fun of a bunch of demons kidnapping babies and trying to eat them keeps on rolling with the latest issue of X-Terminators. I think this is the problem with mini-series; they are usually designed to tell a single story with a singular vision and tone, so for the most part the problems you have with one issue are there for all four. This one has the fine art that see-saws between overly cartoony and a classic workman style like the other two issues. It also has the same creepy mix of cartoony action and demons. The slapstick battles between the big kids and all the animated inanimate objects of New York City are fun, until you realize that it's hell energy animating them. Then it's creepy.

I do have a problem with N'astirh seriously thinking that a computer can help his spells because they have spell checkers on them. Now...I know that computers were as common as Bigfoot back then (man, 1988 you guys, Stone Age!) but doesn't N'astirh at least know that spell has two different meanings? Really? But looking past that, Taki's interactions with him are great and really show him having a cunning mix of snotty whininess and tactical thinking. I like Taki. Why did he disappear?

So yeah, it's an okay issue. It seems like it's an essential part of "Inferno" so far, but then again I might get into the actual story later and realize that all this could be covered by narration captions. For now it's fun. And way better than Fallen Angels.

MY SCORE: 7.9/10