Monday, October 10, 2016

The Black Monday Murders #2


The Black Monday Murders #2

The Black Monday Murders, Issue #2 is a double-issue, like Issue #1.  It begins in East Berlin, 1985.  Like before, it details a high-finance "school" connected to the occult, but now they're experimenting with a unique form of transportation.  In 2016, Detective Dumas is back.  He's questioning a professor about the symbols he saw at 9:00 PM the night before.  Well, that's what the first ten pages are roughly about.  Interested?

I am.  Detective Dumas is a variation on the "Spooky" detective with almost supernatural powers: Sherlock Holmes without the reasoning, Fox Mulder, that sort.  Dumas is a little different, though.  He's not afraid to kill.  Before the events of Issue #1, he killed a woman just after looking her in the eye.  The woman?  A serial killer.  He just knew.  The detective angle really centers the comic, which could have become a little too abstract for some people's taste.  I like East of West and most of Hickman's other work, but for others, it is a little too hard to follow.  This isn't.

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