Huntress Year One #4

The Huntress has her showdown with Mandragora . After taking care of some very incompetent lackeys Helena pins Mandragora to the wall with two bows in the palm of of each of his hands. While he teases her that he knows that she hasn't killed before and that she wont kill him he brakes one of his hand free and grabs his drink from the downstairs party that he was having and tosses it right at Helena. Helena the shoots a bow in his heart. She quickly jumps out of the window with no second look and hides while some more of Mandragora's "special" security checks out the noise that they just heard. But the Pope who is in the courtyard knows that it's Helena and that he tells her that he thought the good capes didn't kill. He tells her that the man that pulled the trigger, that killed her family was inside that party and that he would be at the funeral for Mandragora . As the pope said the hired thug was at the funeral and after it was done she followed him and waited. Thinking that she had him, she sprung into action but was caught of guard. The man making short work of Helena told her that when she gets better at this she was welcome to try again and then he would have the privilege of killing her then, but now he was heading to Gotham. Not liking the fact that she shouldn't go after him right now again and heal her wounds or as well as heading back to Gotham, she does to kill her Family's killer. She returns to Gotham and finds that the man that she had feelings for Tony, was now married and that the wedding reception was at Wayne Manor and since Tony's father was a known boss she made her way to the reception to find her family's killer and finish this once and for all. But at the same time Bruce "The Batman" Wayne had a sting operation going on to take down Tony's father as well.


I really like this story, I like the direction it's heading in. It's a real nice evenly paced story not to choppy or slow going. The pace of it is real great. I know it's nearing the end of the series and it's gonna be a shame for it to end. It just shows how bada$$ Huntress is. I really enjoyed her quick brush in with Barbra Gordon in the bar it was a real nice tie in for Birds of Prey Fans. Also she has plenty of stand out dialog as well in the issue.


Story **** (out of 4)
art ***** (out of 4)
Overall *****(out of 4)

Fans of Huntress YOU WILL ENJOY this, as well as Birds of Prey fans. so if you fit into one of those or you want a good read i really suggest that title to you.