Saturday, May 14, 2016

Stumptown, Volume 2 Review

Stumptown, Volume 2: The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Case. Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth. 2013. Oni Press. 152 pages.

Rating: 4/5

This is the last of the books I received in the Powerless Comic Bento box. It is a detective story set in Portland, OR.

A musician has a guitar stolen at the end of a long tour and hires the detective, Dex Parios, to find it. She is a very typical private eye, but that is just fine for this book. Of course, Dex discovers that there is more to the story as she digs into the investigation. She runs across band members and roadies and is confronted by the DEA.

The art is great. There is a chase sequence about halfway through the book that is fantastic. I always enjoy when creators are willing to take a chance on doing something different like that.

Not much to say on this one. It fits within the genre very well, but I would have liked to have seen some more development on Dex.

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