Eh, it didn't grab my attention as much as volume one. The artwork is still really interesting, but the story's just sort of grubbily dull. Every single character seems grossly stereotypical. I think the biggest difference between the two books, however, lies in the protagonist. Marv plays a small role here, but he was really so attention-getting in volume one - I felt pity for him as much as anything else, which was a genuinely compelling effect. By comparison, the main character in A Dame to Kill For is just an annoying whiner. "Oh Ava, oh Ava..." over and over. Honestly, I don't blame Ava that much for trying to get rid of him. I wouldn't have wanted to put up with his constant one-note sulkiness either.

I'd be far more interested in a story that focused on the pack of women running Old Town. Here's hoping volume three isn't a third outing of "man who's obsessed with a girl and starts killing for her", because let's be honest, there are a lot of those stories out there already, and the excellent artwork here doesn't make that old trope as edgy as the story seems to think it does.