Like Natasha Henstridge's alien from the movie Species, the heroine of the new Image comic, Glitterbomb, Farah Durante transforms into an other-wordly monster when surrounded by phony Hollywood agents, and then brutally murders them. Not even she knows how she got her power, although she (and we) suspect it came from beneath the Pacific Ocean. Her inner demons, I suspect, are years and years of rejection and failure, finally coming back to punish those who all too easily judge others based on looks alone.
As written by Jim Zub and illustrated by Djibril Morissette-Phan, Glitterbomb: Circular Homicide is a new satirical look - albeit with blood and guts, literally! - at the trials and tribulations that an average, less-than-famous actor/actress in Tinseltown has to go through to simply pay rent, or in Farrah's case, her son's babysitter. Zub's characters talk real talk, not movie or typical comic book talk; Morissette-Phan's artwork is impressive, and scenes of carnage and bloodshed are well illustrated. The colors by K. Michael Russell and lettering by Marshall Dillon are equally complimentary and effective.
A commentary on the show business culture, Glitterbomb is entertaining and absurd in about equal quantities. Farah Durante is the comic book universe's brand new anti-heroine: hell surely hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially one who's been told she looks old.
B+
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