Chuck Brown’s “Flawed” is yet one more motion packed and entertaining narrative in his bibliography targeted round P.O.C. characters with out pandering in the direction of the demographic or over-exaggerating stereotypes.
Yeah, Gem’s a psychiatrist, however I can keep in mind Ms. Burton and Laqueshia who each had been court docket appointed therapists for me in my teen’s spent in California’s foster care system and after I emancipated out. Plenty of individuals prefer to take a dump on this a lot wanted occupation, particularly throughout the so-called “black” neighborhood, which is ironic, as a result of our demographic wants it greater than most. Chuck Brown determined to show Gem right into a superhero. And yeah she’s extra peak human than superhuman however on this problem and all through the sequence she’s the image of motion, which Prenzy is ready to seize in a method that makes it onerous to know the attractive melaninated faces on the web page.
The concentrate on eugenics and the general genetic superiority of the melanin dominant make-up is a subject that Brown by no means shies away from, however the way in which that her interweaves this reality into “Flawed”, isn’t contrived or put along with a sense of taking place an previous overwhelmed path.
Every character is wonderful and recent, from the hitwoman with newsboy flavour who opens up the scene weapons blazing at Gem, to Ammit who’s Gem’s Leslie Thompkins and has animals skilled to kill like a safety staff of ex- NAVY S.E.A.L.S.
The publicity of corruption on the highest locations all within the chase of immortality to the bottom rungs of society the place a lady could be kidnapped with a cheeseburger dug out the rubbish can sitting like a pound of gold in her hand are all current right here. As Chuck Brown drops data akin to diamonds with Prenzy’s help displaying that nobody is resistant to being humbled, in a single panel the place a personality who’s shredded of practically every part will get stripped of his dignity as properly and is made to sit down down with a stream of properly aimed selection phrases.
Ending with one thing of a foreword by the achieved Julian C. Chambliss and starting with a canopy by a comics legend (Denys Cowan) recognized to make “Milestone’s” , Chuck Brown’s most up-to-date installment is a standout on the rack. Combining neo-crime noir and blaxplotation parts with motion heroics and philosophies based mostly on eugenics and psychiatry not seen this deep since Tom King’s “Heroes In Crisis”, Chuck Brown’s “Flawed” is a praiseworthy piece.
SCORE: 4.5/5
(W) Chuck Brown (A/CA) Prenzy
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