Well if you’re going to wrap up a series known for its striking art throughout you might as well do it with the beautiful work of Henry Flint. Nemesis Book X has so many things going for it but the art is truly the star of the show. Ok there are a few too many panels directly honouring Kevin O’Neil’s work but that’s nit picking. It’s a testament to how fantastic the art is that in the final part Kevin O’Neil’s more recent looser style is a disappointment, compared to what has gone before. I particularly liked the way he threw in some tiny action panels in one episode to allow room for a grotesque massive splash which I took to be a hats off to John Hicklenton
As for the story... well I just can’t make my mind up. When thinking about it, it had everything the final book of Nemesis should have. It felt epic in scale, the two central characters were as beautifully hideous as they ever are, everything was wrapped up after appropriate amounts of anarchy, mayhem and violence and the ending was fittingly horrendous. Yet somehow it didn’t quite do it, it didn’t quite manage to be the sum of its parts. Maybe it felt a little like Mills was going through the motions and wrapping up everything that had gone before by going back to how it was at the beginning. The trouble for me is the great thing about Nemesis is that it’d always moved on and tried different things. Still that said it certainly wasn’t bad and by the end I was satisfied if not quite as elated as I’d hoped.
