SAVANT GARDE issue 2

when wildstorm added this title, featuring one of my favorite characters in comics (Savant, little sister of Zealot), it was a welcome surprise to me. however, the concept was a team book, and the writing was pretty bad. i stuck with it through three preview issues and six semi-monthly issues, and that's all i could take. ryan odagawa's art, which i normally like, was also inconsistent. unlike many of the image titles of the mid- to late 1990s, there were few splashes and large panels. advancing the story through sequential art isn't a bad thing, but the story was so bad that it might not have been the right choice for this book. anyway, this is one of the nicest, largest images in the six to nine issues i read. it's the cover of issue 2, featuring Savant fighting a cat girl who never spoke and basically was never identified while i read the book. but this cover kicks ass.