Hotwire: Deep Cut #1

Steve Pugh's and Warren Ellis's bleached hair, cyberpunk, ghost hunter: Hotwire is back in a brand new storyline and I couldn't be more pleased.

Hotwire is a totally unique character in comic books. She's brash, sassy, has an attitude and a huge I.Q. to back up her huge ego. She's all business when it comes to hunting down Blue-Lights (ghosts who stick around and refuse to leave) who decide to cause trouble in the land of the living.

In issue #1 of Deep Cut readers discover a little bit about Hotwire's (Alice Hotwire) past. Home-schooled and hot-housed by a community of scientists, Alice left the science community when her mother was killed.

Drugging herself up to lower her high I.Q. Alice drifted from club to club, drinking herself into oblivion and hanging around with an anti-everything loser.

When the loser is killed after taunting a nearby ghost, Alice begins her slow recovery and eventually heads up a special police division that deals with wayward ghosts.

Badly injured in her last encounter with Blue-Lights, Alice sequestered herself in her apartment for six months, refusing to answer phone calls from her associates-until a mechanized Blue-Light causes trouble. Things have only begun to get interesting.

Hotwire: Deep Cut from Radical Publishing is a great read. It's characters are fully-realized individuals with distinct personalities and the story grabs you from the first page. If any comic book property deserves to be made into a movie-Hotwire is it!