Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Salmon of Doubt, Issue #2 sees the detective Dirk Gently looking for his companion, Sally Mills, using a time machine. You see, in Issue #1, Sally Mills accidentally stepped into the bathroom of Professor Regius Chronaotis, not knowing that said bathroom is a time machine. They also don't know that Bernice the cat is missing. Or how to kiss, it seems.
I haven't watched the Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency TV show, which has been advertised on the comics. I do love Douglas Adams, and I do love Dirk Gently, but I just can't handle TV these days. The comic is more than enough, and writer Arvind Ethan David really "gets" Dirk Gently. In those two novels, if I'm remembering them correctly, the humor is slightly different from that of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. They are funny in a more subtle manner, not in the "hit you over the head" style of humor that Eoin Colfer uses in And Another Thing, which is a wonderful work.
What I like specifically about the coloring is the blues used. The blue on the "Previously" and "Dramatis Personae" pages just blew me away, especially how colorist Charlie Kirchoff winds that blue into other blues in the work. I've fawned over the work of artist Ilias Kyriazis, specifically the Africascapes in A Spoon Too Short, but it's also the coloring of those scenes that helped make them great. And again in this issue, the detail is fantastic.
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