Witchblade #144 [2010] by Ron Marz

WITCHBLADE #144

The title series celebrates its 15th anniversary issue as it approaches its 150th issue. This issue begins as Lieutenant Phipps of NYPD Internal Affairs unit investigates the suicide of Detective Jake McCarthy. Lt. Phipps opens a safety deposit box belonging to Jake McCarthy which retells the origin of the Witchblade from his point of view. Now Lt. Phipps is opening an investigation on Sara Pezzini to discover more about her and the Witchblade. The back-up tale brings the secret origin of Patrick Gleason.

Writer Ron Marz and artist Stjepan Sejic brought back memories when the series was first drawn by the late Michael Turner. The up-and-coming artist brought attention to the book as well as the Top Cow Universe. Ron Marz began his glory days by replacing Hal Jordan and introducing Kyle Rayner as the new Green Lantern. After reading his Artifacts mini-series, I can say the writer has matured as he brings together and introduces 13 fairly new characters to new readers into

one coherent story.

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5