I like Tara Chace. Rucka has a way of writing characters that reveal flaws and soft underbellies despite tough exteriors. I love that he doesn't overly sexualize his female characters, or in most cases at all. I really liked Rolston's art, and found Hurrt's pretty damned satisfying too. These two artists' styles drew me in, and made me appreciate the characters, and trust that I wasn't going to see Chace cheaply sexualized.

I was wrong on that. I hated Fernandez's art. Like many of the reviewers here, I found Fernandez's female figures overly sexualized, huge boobs, wasp waists, big pouting lips, especially Tara Chace's. I found his dagger nails on Cheng really creepy, giving me a visceral "oh, yuck" response, and this is over-emphasized by how ugly and cartoonishly expressive he makes his male characters. He seems to have a fondness for these open arm poses taken at an angle of looking down the arm at the body, you know, extreme foreshortening of the hand and arm. This struck me as jarring. He also de-persons/objectifies/reduces-to-a-single-sexualized-feature most of the female characters by focusing on their lips in many frames, cutting out most of their faces to show a chewed puffy-pouty lip, or the fact that they're on a phone call. Paired with Rucka's writing of the Kittering/Chace relationship-that-wasn't, it emphasized the creepiness of Kittering's pursuit. What might have come off as something that Chace actively participated in instead came off as just gross sexual harassment. It really brought home just how important both the art and the writing are in comics, and how deeply intertwined they really are.

As with any series that changes artists over different arcs, each one envisions the characters differently. I knew that's what would happen. Fernandez just seemed like such a mismatch to me. I am debating continuing with the series. I think I have to get an idea of who else worked on it, first.