This made a nomination for best continuing series in the Eisners, and I hadn’t heard of it, so I gave it a try. My library actually only has this first volume and there’s four out, probably more to come, if it’s still, obviously, continuing.

I think the major issue this has is that it doesn’t telegraph what it is, so the aesthetic does the talking. It looks like realism or detective noir, only with vampires—but it pivots into straight up urban fantasy conventions later on. Only not exactly, since there’s a through line of subversion of some of those expectations with social justice folding into the picture as a dissenting vampire opposes the (kind of strange) main antagonist: John Adams, the vampire.

What does work is the father-son relationship and arc, though. That was a solid foundation that allowed the otherwise gonzo plot to unfold, because it does go to a play I did not expect, which is saying something given the above. I would read the next volume, I think, and see why it’s one of the best continuing series, had my library had more copies of the next volumes. Maybe some day.