In the first issue Lord Baltimore rolls into town and begins cleaning up the place almost like Clint Eastwood in a “Man with no Name” movie. We know very little about him and why he hunts vampires. Issue two picks up right where issue one leaves off, he is released from prison and is aboard a boat following his vampire foe. Once he is aboard he finally has some down time from the action that began in the first issue. With that down time we are given back some back story! I love a good back story, in this case we find out why and how he became a vampire hunter, and why he is following this particular vampire.
The writing is typical Mignola, which I confess that I love Mike Mignola’s work, and I love this book! The art style is the usual for a Mignola books, lots of blacks and grays, and an almost two-dimensional flat quality, that I have grown to love. One if the things that I particularly enjoyed was the color pallet. Because it is a vampire book a dark color pallet was used, except for when blood was seen. When blood was in the panel a vibrant red was used.
This book is $3.50, and comes out today (September 1,2010), you still have plenty of time to start reading this series!
I liked this issue better than the first.
I did too.