Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Writer: Andy Diggle and Angela Cruikshank
Artist: Andrea Mutti
Colourist: Vladimir Popov
Release Date: OUT NOW!!
Price: $3.99

Not sure I’m qualified to write this review since Control #3, written by the UK’s own Andy Diggle (2000AD, Swamp Thing, Daredevil etc) and Angela Cruikshank is aimed at Mature Readers. Let’s assume being young at heart doesn’t disqualify me and see what we have here.

Well, true to Andy Diggle’s mission statement of wanting to write a ‘100% police procedural’ of the sort you see on TV, Control has dodgy senators, escort services with a nice sideline in blackmail, bone-crunching violence, a nosy reporter with a secret and lots of naughty words.

Control’s central character is Washington DC detective Kate Burnham. Fortunate, or unlucky, enough to foil an assassination attempt, Kate is now on the killer’s hit list. Since her partner got himself killed, she’s not exactly the most popular cop on the force right now either. If ‘tough gal in a men’s world’ scenario is your sort of thing, Control certainly ticks all the right boxes and does well as an homage to its TV forebears.

Will Kate Burnham join the exalted ranks of Cagney and Lacey, Rizzoli and Isles and Murder She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher? She has all the right qualities and the plot is pacey and convoluted enough to grab the attention so she just might.

Who knows, we might someday see a TV adaptation of Control. Stranger things have happened.

 

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker