I like these stories, and love most f Kurt Busiek stuff, but these story feel VERY long.

So this is about Steeljack. After years of being in prison he is finally released and decides to try to do good. Try to live a normal life. He's done being a bad guy, or fully bad anyway, and wants to fix his life up. However, when small time villains begin to get picked off they hire him as some type of private eye to help them figure out what's happening. Will the villain turned hero be able to figure it out or make it worse?

Good: I liked the mystery behind it. All the people, superhero or not, feel like regular people which is great. I also like Steeljack and his views and the way he wanted to fix himself up. I also thought the idea of him fixing himself up and the way he was going on about it was pretty neat.

Bad: The mystery behind it all wasn't really that interesting or hard to guess. I also thought the pacing had some serious issues. I think these are written almost like novels where the pictures are hardly needed because it's so heavily narrated.

Overall this was a solid mystery with a cool main lead. It didn't blow me away, none of these volumes (except 2 was really interesting) blew me away. I think might take a break for a bit on this series and come back but this still solid, a 3 out of 5.