Sticking an olive in whatever that beverage Odessa was drinking does not a martini make.īLACK CAT #7 complements what has been an enjoyable series. One last, petty, personal gripe: you don’t pour a martini from a bottle guys. Perhaps the best part of the book takes place right before Felicia finally shows up, when the Black Fox turns the interrogation onto Odessa, and drops a fairly large bombshell that the readers can discover for themselves. There is a real sense of Black Cat fighting her way to her ultimate goal, and the creators build the anticipation well. However, Foreman’s close-up stuff is good, and the full-page spread of Odessa’s deal for immortality is by far the best art in the book.Īs Drake is bitching about her life to her captive, Felicia is making her way through the city (and Odessa’s thieves), and the cuts between the converging storylines work. Backgrounds are largely nonexistent, and distant characters featureless. The progressions in the flashbacks are especially confounding, but the art overall suffers from heavy inking, giving it an almost blurred look. Unfortunately, Travel Foreman’s art just doesn’t hold up to the story MacKay is laying out. It may be old news to Black Fox, but Jed MacKay weaves an interesting backstory for the reader, which at this point in the series is welcome. Instead she tortures him by spouting a history of the Thieves Guild and how her family was ultimately wronged. Well, more like being taunted, because as Odessa states, the Fox is so near death he can’t even take a beating. The book opens with a bloodied and bruised Black Fox tied to a chair, being tortured by his captor, Thieves Guild bigwig Odessa Drake.

Can Felicia find the Fox before Odessa’s nefarious plot comes to fruition? Let’s find out, in Jed MacKay’s BLACK CAT #7! Black Cat is on the prowl after her nemesis, Odessa Drake, has kidnapped the Black Fox.

Captive by Felicia Fox