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8. Hell Comes to Birmingham, Part Three

Writer: Paul Cornell
Artist: Leonard Kirk

I like this series, and this is a decent issue, but I feel that this second arc is a bit of a slump compared to the first.

And I think most of that is related to the way comics started to exist around this time. Writing for the trade became a thing, and comics began to decompress to fit five or six-issue arcs. Honestly, I think this would’ve worked better as a two or even three-part article.

Like the previous issue, most of this one has our team wandering around the house while Brian bounces around in his own brain. Blade and Spitfire meet up with the others just in time for everyone to find out that Captain Midlands, the MI-13 member who brought them there, is a traitor who betrayed them all to Plotka in order to bring back his dead wife. I haven’t mentioned Midlands yet because barely factors into the main plot. But he had a good design.

Hopefully, the next issue brings this thing home in a big way.