I like this a lot - the art is never short of amazing and in some cases is beyond amazing - but it opens on a sour note when, after the escape of a murderous psychopath, our hero turns out to be on a bit of a bender owing to the death of a love interest in the first book. Yes, we have a fridging, a female character killed off to give a male lead character something to emote about. fair enough, this is a kind of anthropomorphic steampunk neo-noir, and noir heroes and anti-heroes are often typically filled with angst over the death of a true love, so it's just about justifiable, only not really, because in this day and age it's lazy and distasteful.

Aside from that, it's an enjoyable romp as Archie LeBrock returns to Grandville in pursuit of Mad Dog, a resistance fighter turned serial killer, and in the course of his hunt turns up a few nasty secrets about the past. The art and the story-telling are brilliant, even if parts of the story, as above, could have done, perhaps, with a little more consideration and subversion.