Purgatori: Heartbreaker

    (Chaos, 2002)
™ and © Brian Pulido

When it comes to art, Purgatori: Heartbreaker is as beautiful as any of the comics featuring the Chaos stable of bad girls. But as far as the story goes, the tale is rushed and suffers accordingly.

Purgatori, the vampire demoness, is the baddest of the aforementioned bad girls. Sakkara is her non-demon (but still vampire) alter ego. Our tale begins with Sakkara picking up her quarry, a woman, in a dance club. How she does this is unexplained. Is it a co-ed gay club? Does she control minds? Just luck?

Sakkara takes a big bite out of Dana’s neck and guzzles some blood. As she spits it out, Dana asks her why she stopped. This is not a playful love bite — this is a vicious wound, yet her new partner is untroubled by being bitten. Furthermore, the wound requires no attention!

Enter drug-dealer Prince Ignacio Quintana, who is Dana’s — employer? Lover? Brother? We don’t have time to find out, because immediately after he makes his entrance, in walk the kidnappers.

The least logical scene occurs as Sakkara frees Quintana, who has no trouble carrying on a conversation with a piece of duct tape sealing his mouth shut.

The plot is serviceable, but cramming it into a one-shot instead of over a several-issue story arc renders it into so many plot contrivances.

— Jack Abramowitz
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March, 2002
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