Manhunter
 

Hello there and welcome to another new thread by me,

Today, I'd like to present you the DC Comic called Manhunter and, of course, ask you to voice your opinion on it.

So, here we go: Kate Spencer is a really good lawyer, a bad mother, divorced and she smokes. Not exactly hero material right. Besides, she doesn't have any super powers. So, one day she has to deal with a case, where she says that Copperhead, a cannibal snakeman, should be executed (I know, my lawyer-vocabulary sucks). Anyhow, she loses the case and Copperhead goes free. That's too much for Kate, all the people who will now die because of the system's failure.

So she goes to the room where they keep evidence from other cases and picks random items that just look good to her. A pair of clawed gloves, a red dress, a mask and a staff that shoots out blue energy rays. With that, she goes hunting, kills Copperhead and leaves her signature in his blood. On her second mission, her equipment gets damaged, so she goes to see a former henchman of just about everybody who becomes her ally... more or less willingly. And with that, she goes hunting some more, going after Shadow Thief, Phobia, Dumas and a lot of other 2nd-row vilains, who get really cool parts in the series.

Now, what makes that comic so enjoyable. I'd say it's the way the story's told. There's always more than one story going on at the same time. And there's Kate's private life, her son getting injured while playing with her staff, her ex husband filing for full custody of her son, her abusive father returning, Cameron Chase of the DEO, the police hunting her, her job as a lawyer... and lots of other things.

Also, the art is quite nice. Kate doesn't have enormous boobs, is far from perfect and not even blond.

Everyone who likes seeing heroes with real problems should definitely check it out.

And now: Your turn. Have you read it? How did you like it? YOu know, the usual...

I wasn't a big fan, and I stopped reading around issue 8ish?

Oh? But that's where it gets good. There's the trial of Shadow thief, with Phobia and a carbomb, Dumas who is awesome, Director Bones... it gets better every issue.

Technically I stopped reading after the whole trial and Shadow thief gets his shadow back. I just didn't care for the character, that's all.