New review: Pretty much same feelings, except I enjoyed it a bit more. Closer to a 3.5 but it is the weakest volume in the series for me.

Old Review: I think I really need to go back and re-read volume 1 cause found the start pretty confusing. I'm sure it would connect more if I did that as well. ANYHOW...

This volume starts off with the arena again. Remember that place? Where our favorite hero died in Volume 1? Well we go back there and the series decides to give us a character who was mostly in the background some spotlight and later surprises us. The rest of the volume focuses on Tojo (Sorry if spelling it wrong) survived the last volume (no big spoiler there. If she didn't we'd have no characters to follow) and she is mostly on a high speed chase to get revenge to what happened to her. A lot of this volume actually is very fast paced action set pieces with a big ending that sets up the series in a interesting direction.

Good: I believe the art is getting better and better as it goes on. I also really enjoy the daughter because she's compelling and interesting. I loved the high speed chase, it was well done. The ending also got me hopeful this series direction and what we're in for next.

Bad: The volume felt very short (4 issues?) and being faced paced felt lacking there. Also the twist with IO was kind of silly. I loved the series for the balls it had to kill off characters, don't go back on that Rick!

Overall this was a solid fun volume with a more hopeful outlook than the 3 previous volumes. While I didn't love it like Volume 2-3 I did enjoy it as much as one. I think a re-read soon of this series would be good since they are spaced out so far from each other in release date wise.