Bloody Mary (DC)

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™ and © 2005 DC Comics, Inc. & Garth Ennis

From the Publisher:

It’s 2012, and the world is once again consumed by war. After 13 years of carnage in the trenches of France, the fascist superstate of continental Europe has nearly worn down the resources of Britain and America, but neither side can break the stalemate on the battlefield—until an experimental new technology appears that promises total domination for whoever possesses it. For the Allies, there’s only one person capable of retrieving this new weapon from inside the heart of enemy territory—Corporal Mary Malone, better known as Bloody Mary.

A veteran of countless missions and one of only two survivors from the greatest kill-team ever assembled, Corporal Malone is getting tired of fighting—unlike her combat-addled, gun-ho British colleague The Major. But this assignment has an extra incentive: the mercenary peddling the war-winner is her old commander Anderton—the man who betrayed his own team to go freelance in the profiteering business. Even with the odds of survival falling somewhere between slim and none, it’s too good an opportunity to pass up. Beating Anderton, however, will take more than guts and skill—and success may turn out to be worse than death.


From the Comics Buyer’s Guide:

Phony Clergy Alert! Fans of battle popes, warrior nuns, and nuns with guns, please be advised that Bloody Mary is not a bona-fide sister. She’s not even defrocked like her namesake, AP’s Shotgun Mary. It’s just Corporal Mary Malone’s disguise, meant to disarm and disorient her opponents. (It works pretty well, too.)

Written by Garth Ennis, this includes lots of what readers love Ennis for: quirky characters, irreverence bordering on blasphemy, and lots of messy, messy killing.

Among the truly Ennisian touches, you’ll find Englishmen and Irishmen, an amnesiac major, the wine-guzzling Vatman, a sexually dysfunctional messiah, facial disfiguration, and a Kurt Cobain reference.

If you haven’t heard of Bloody Mary, that’s probably because it’s no Kev and it’s certainly no Preacher. But, if you enjoyed those, you also will find something to like here. And it’s not too over-the-top in terms of grossness or vulgarity. (Relatively restrained Ennis.)

How can you not like a comic book that includes the line, “I will not die at the hands of a man called Fluffybottom”?


— Jack Abramowitz
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