Much better than volume two, this is a return to the excellence of the first collection. There's barely any focus on the nastily uninteresting Zack, and the narrative returns to its essential heart: a family recovering from trauma. Or not recovering, as the case may be with Mrs. Locke. She's fallen into alcoholism, which - her husband was murdered and her children nearly so, and she was raped on top of it, so I can't really blame her for wanting the quick release of a drink - but her increasingly awful parenting is fucking up her kids even more. It's both horrible and sympathetic to watch, and the two older kids, especially, are having to take the brunt of it, all the time exploring the weird-arse house that's becoming ever more nightmarish. It's the fracturing family relationships that hold this comic series together, and the more the creators focus on those the better the series becomes.