Review: Martha Washington Dies

Creators: Frank Miller, writer; Dave Gibbons, artist

Dark Horse, color, 24 pages, color, $3.50

So? The Martha Washington series, which began in 1990 with the outstanding “Give Me Liberty” was one of those slightly overlooked great comics of the 1990s. So for fans of the strange, overly corporate and corrupt world that the virtuous warrior woman called home, this is going to be a bit of a let down. Rather than capping her story in the grand style it seemed to deserve, Miller and Gibbons instead present a very short tale of the very end of the character’s life, followed by the original series proposal and an ad for a complete MW collection due next year. That book will be a must-buy, but this can’t help but disappoint (despite Gibbon’s always-terrific art) in the face of such a long elaborate setup and an absence of many years. Grade: C