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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Modesty ablaze |
 | | And artist Jim Holdaway's sequencing comes up fresh: cutaways from close-up to location create tension, but the violence is restrained to about one frame in 50, as abruptly brief as the real thing: a table lamp disintegrates as a truck hits a building. |
 | | As for Modesty and her partner Willie Garvin, barring her brush with Cleopatra eyeshadow (the malachite tint is evident even in B/W), they remain shockingly novel: their fl fatigues, which add mass to their outlines, are not vintage at all. |
 | | This is drawn as much as stated: Holdaway never objectifies Modesty, even on the rare occasions when he drafts her half-dressed, and when the two are in frame together there's a satisfying dynamic and balance to the graphics. |
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