Written by: Joshua Williamson 
Art by: Seth Damoose
Colours by: Paul Little
Letters by: Zen Afzal
Cover by: Dan Duncan
Published by: Image
Cover Price: $3.50
Xenoholics is neither decompressed nor fast paced storytelling. Despite the presence of aliens, secret organisations and relatively big concepts it has a strange meandering quality to it. This is exasperated by the conversation heavy nature of this issue.
The Xenoholics are in custody of Xander and the Men in White. While Xander tries to explain what is really happening and how the majority of the Xenoholics have had no real contact with aliens, the group tries to maintain their positions.
The new information revealed in this issue is quite interesting, but as Xander points out, each member of the Xenoholic group is basically a stereotype, so it isn’t too hard to guess what has really been going on. There’s a strange confidence in pointing out the cliché nature of one’s own characters though.
As the issue draws to a close there is yet another attempted escape by the Xenoholics (they have been doing a lot of escaping) and a sort of shock ending. But I feel that there needs to be some real progression soon, because at the moment the narrative seems to keep stalling every time it gets close to something really good.
The art, however, does maintain a high standard. One’s opinion on the art is obviously down to an individual’s predilection for a more exaggerated cartoon like style. But I think it suits the characters and plot and it also helps to keep the slower moments interesting to look at.
I’m still enjoying Xenoholics with the writing and art being generally good, but it isn’t quite reaching the points I feel it should be.
7/10
