This issue is...weird.
First, Fraction portrays Kate almost entirely differently than she normally is. Sure, I enjoy when we play up Kate's spoiled side. But, Fraction goes too far, making her seem both clueless and naive when she's hardly either. On the former, she completely fails to notice that the Weed Lord's henchmen are all bellhops, the preferred costume of Madame Masque's henchmen. (In fact, the Weed Lord just having henchman is probably a pretty good sign that we're dealing with something more complicated than orchid theft.) On the latter, she seems to think that she can just act as a law-enforcement official without any sort of experience or license. (I mean, she doesn't even realize that the Weed Lord is selling weed legally. He's only arrested after she essentially entraps him into committing a hit-and-run attack on her.) Also, she may be going insane, given that she's hallucinating some sort of private-detective mentor.
I may be able to forgive all that, but Fraction's plot also has some holes, namely the fact that Kate just happens upon one of Madame Masque's henchmen on her first "case." I mean, he just so happens to steal an orchid that her neighbors need for their wedding for Madame Masque's bath? Really? I'd like to think that it was on purpose, but the Weed Lord makes it pretty clear to Madame Masque that it was accidental. After all, if he knew to steal an orchid that Kate's neighbors needed, then he knew who Kate's neighbors were, thus, he knew where she was. As such, he wouldn't need to draw out Kate in the first placel; he would've already known where she was. As I said, it was all just weird.
** (two of five stars)
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