After having been one of the defining creative forces in the first decade of the book’s existence, Ron Marz left Witchblade two years ago at #150, when Top Cow reworked their entire publishing line and the title went to Hack/Slash creator Tim Seeley.A lifelong fan of the character, Seeley admired Marz’s work but set about almost immediately trying to differentiate himself, creating over the course of his twenty-issue run a story that was both personal and widescreen–but also reinvented the wheel a bit, moving Sara to a new city and removing her from her supporting cast and familiar trappings of the previous 150 issues.Now that it’s over, of course, the problem is that a fairly standalone “movie” screened in the middle of the ongoing “TV series” of monthly comics demands another retooling when it’s over–and one with a gentle touch, since you don’t want to seem schizophrenic, as though the premise is damaged so badly it needs a reboot every couple of years.
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