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Leave It to Chance: Monster Madness

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Chance, daughter of Devil's Echo's occult investigator the Falconer, wants to assume the mantle of the Falconer which has been passed from father to son for generations. But Lucas Falconer has no intention of passing the responsibility on to his little girl. Chance is always trying to prove herself and always getting into trouble. But unlike some comics, this girl is usually able to get herself out of trouble without the help of Daddy or some other big strong man. (She does get help from her pet dragon though).

This volume collects issues 9-11. Only three comics in this one instead of four like the other volumes. And, as far as I know at the time of this writing, this is the last volume which is disappointing.

In our last volume, Chance was sent off to boarding school, but after saving the school from a ghost pirate her father brought her home to be educated by a private tutor and hopefully keep her out of trouble. But in Devil's Echo, where magic is an everyday occurance, staying out of trouble is easier said than done.

Our first story is a two-parter in which movie monsters similar to (but legally distinct from) Dracula, the Wolf-man, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster all walk out of the movie screen and start to terrorize the town. Lucas Falconer has his hands full fighting these monsters who don't conform to the normal weaknesses of vampires, werewolves, etc. But Chance discovers that unleashing these monsters was just a distraction and she has go where the real action is by herself.

In the second story a star hockey player is murdered and it looks like Devil's Echo's hockey team is going to lose the Stanley Cup. But when the player comes back from the dead to try and lead his team to victory, the people who had him killed aren't too happy. Attending the Stanley Cup finals, Chance and her father get caught in the middle.

These stories are a lot of fun. Chance has a great energy. Paul Smith's artwork is, as always, excellent. My only complaints with the story are that when the hockey player died, everyone was more concerned about the team winning the Stanley Cup than they were about the man's death, and that the mystery villain behind the living movie monsters was never revealed. Also I was disappointed to find only three issues in this collection, and to find that there aren't any more out there. I WANT MORE CHANCE!!!!

Although I have yet to get this volume in the Leave It to Chance series, I have read (and re-read) both earlier books. This is a very good, goth-style drawn comic that I actually think well of -which I don't do often. It is pretty PG, although the characters could scare some younger kids, and the action isn't as dramatic, nor as sickeningly constant, as in norm. comics such as Batman, etc., so we get to know our characters well, yet they continue to surprise in each volume... amazingly! Chance is a "human heroine", a very relatable and curious teenager, that is on a mission to prove that she can handle her father's sorcerous legacy... even if she is a girl. Go girl! But it is okay for guys as well, don't get me wrong. The line IS more fantasy than barbary, however Chance is pretty cute in a tomboy-ish kind of way ^_^. So while I haven't gotten this one, I definitely recommend it. It's on my Wish List already!