Artist Manny Bello (who first teamed up with Beechen four years ago in Hench) gives this lot a suitably lived-in appearance: even his Irene isn't too much of a looker. Back when I first read Hench, I took issue with some of Bellow's unconvincing figures, but it's less of an issue in Dugout. If, at times, Beechen's chatty set-up overpowers the artist's visuals (there are a few too many talky headshots), the artist's rumpled, dust-flecked style is definitely suited to the story's period milieu. These mugs live in a leather-stitched world, and they wouldn't have it any other way. Neither, for that matter, would we...
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