nigellicus's review
5.0
In the days after the election of Trump, reading this has all sorts of odd resonances. An X-Files meets The West Wing mash-up - or, rather meets The Candidate, I suppose - about a Hispanic Governor making a run for the White House who has a traumatic alien abduction experience that throws her and her staff into a strange and shadowy world of illusion and half truth and sinister doings that can't be properly explained. It's intelligent, stylish, and plays masterfully with the imagery and conventions of the political drama, alien abductions and the conspiracy thriller. Naturally, it only lasted 14 issues, and though this second volume manages to bring it to satisfactory conclusion, there is a maddening sense of so much story left untold. Thankfully, Cornell and Ryan are taking the title to IDW where it will be continuing from July '17. Vertigo broke my heart so many times with so many of these great titles that didn't last, it's nice to see one of them getting another shot. It is a pity, though, that they went for the old Hunter S Thompson tag-line on the back cover without changing it to, oh, I don't know, 'Fear And Probing On The Campaign Trail?'
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