By Patrick Wolf

Have you ever seen one of those cheap, Chinese knockoffs? What’s interesting about these products is how they’re so similar and yet so different from the real thing. We can almost always identify a counterfeit Spiderman toy, and yet we can’t help but marvel at how similar it is to the genuine article. I think part of the reason for this phenomenon is that the Chinese knockoff isn’t a straightforward copy: it’s just so generic it feels like a duplicate. Jim Hachey’s Supernatural Agents #1 has a similar feel. While it’s not a direct rip-off, the artwork, story, and characters are so imitative; you’ll get that same feeling you experience whenever you see a counterfeit: it looks like the real thing, but it’s just too generic to be it.