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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