Started the 2024 Witchblade comic today, read 2 issues (was also reading the new Absolute DC titles, so didn't devote as much time as usual to the readthrough). I'd call myself a big Witchblade/Top Cow fan - I've read the original run, especially loved the Artifacts era. It has a special place in my heart as one of the superhero universes I first fully experienced by reading all of it.
I was really skeptical of this relaunch specifically - I hated DC Bombshells and thought Ark: The Animated Series was pretty bad, so I just assumed anything by Marguerite Bennett would be bad. I only decided to read it because I heard there would be a Vampirella crossover and that really kicked my nostalgia into high gear.
But, despite my reservations, I enjoyed what I read today a lot!
Sara is a really cool and compelling character - this ball of bitterness and vengeance-seeking who gets hit with this bodyjacking possessive artifact that takes control of her body almost without her realizing it at times. The bodyjacking horror of the Witchblade is played up in some interesting ways, there's some good gruesomeness.
You can tell Bennett grew up reading and liking Witchblade (Silvestri mentions this in an afterword in #1 too) - it shows in the title. I started reading this because I heard it was getting a Vampirella crossover in August, and I'm liking what I'm seeing so far!
Cafaro and Prianti's lineart and coloring is excellent.
(There are negatives - not sure how I feel about Sara being ex-special forces. Also - Sara being a cop solely to chase her father's killers is a bit underwhelming, I think I'd prefer her joining the cops out of hero worship for her dead father and slowly becoming disillusioned with the cops and eventually getting pushed out, although faster than it happened in the original run. It feels like in the modern era, writers feel like they have to go 'no no no they're a cop but they're good! and you kinda get that vibe sometimes in this comic with how they portray Sara as a cop.
Also, the dialogue exposition can be a bit clunky at times. 'Mr. Irons? Mr. Kenneth Irons?')
I'll have to do a big old school Top Cow reread at some point. Shadow of Atlantis already has me wanting to reread the Top Cow Tomb Raider - my first exposure to Lara.