1 out of 5

Dregs.  I was okay with the previous Black Siddha floppy because Mills’ ham-fisted style is tolerable when blended with some humor, but except for some Millsy yuks in some scenes involving the influential Bodhi family, the apparent conclusion to the reincarnated Siddha’s tale is a boring and drawn out un- cat-and-mouse cat-and-mouse ‘tween the lead and Jester Karnak, a crazy man who killed the human version of BS’s father and thus instigated this whole revenge spirit thing.  The runaround of Siddha versus Jester indulges Mills’ worst tendencies of good guy bad guy simplicity and dumbed down dialogue, and in favor of re- and re- and reminding us of the motivations of the chase, all possible glee is sucked right out.  Even Simon Davis’ art feels pretty uninspired, just static close-ups for the most parts or blurry backgrounds.  The whole thing comes across as something of a rush job, then, to close things out, even though I suspect that wasn’t the case… more that it just wasn’t a very interesting character to begin with.

Thankfully – but sort of annoyingly – we get the next two installments of Harlem Heroes that was cut-off last floppy.  Thankfully because I’m happy we’ll get the conclusion, but annoyingly because it’s still not complete… meaning it’ll be stuffed into the back of the next floppy, I hope, and it doesn’t mesh well with Siddha except to be a whole lot more enjoyable.  (This only enhances how boring Siddha is, though.)