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Another fabulous installment in Rucka's Stumptown series. This one is a fast-paced head rush with plot twists and a series revelation that leaves you feeling sucked further in to the muck and mire that is Stumptown.
Stumptown Vol 2 offers another solid mystery with a charmingly belligerent protagonist. Greg Rucka continues to be an excellent writer of characters and an above-average writer of mysteries. The only letdown in this second volume is Matthew Southworth's art, which seems to have fallen off a cliff into murky waters. Literally murky in that the coloring in half the book seems to have been rubbed in with the side of someone's hand. Plus, a third act car chase takes place wide-screen, meaning that y...
Another fine mystery. It's certainly not in the same league as Queen & Country, but it's got some of the same vibe, so it's fun to read. The only thing keeping me reading these out of the library instead of buying them myself is ONI's production: an overpriced hardcover that nonetheless has low-quality matte pages. I'd except or the other, but not both. Hoping this someday comes out in a TPB or omnibus that I'll be willing to buy
This was an exciting little romp!Greg Rucka's Stumptown: The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Case has everybody's favorite Portland PI Dexedrine "Dex" Parios investigating a guitarist's missing guitar. Originally, Dex believes it's going to be a simple open and shut case, thinking one of the roadies sold it to make a quick buck on Ebay. However, things get trickier when a pair of skinheads get involved which causes the D.E.A. to get involved. It begs the question: why is this guitar the subject o...
Mim Bracca is the guitarist for Tailhook and her guitar (The baby in the velvet case) has been stolen. Enter Dex to track it down. There's an absolute killer car chase in this. I loved how it worked visually. Southworth's art looked much better in this. Maybe it was bringing on Rico Renzi to do the coloring. The art was much less murky and the character's actually looked different in this arc.I love the easter eggs Rucka put in this for his long time readers. Mim first appeared in Rucka's novel
Bullet Review:Absolutely fantastic! I love how it's mostly a standalone story, with a thread from the last book carrying to a sequel.
I didn't like this one as much as the first. Though it does point towards a larger story arc at the end. It is a good series though because Dex is such a good character.
Better than volume 1. Still dark. Still crime. Still Portland. This one has its silly points in the plot. And the art is occasionally off. But a good strong ending that hints of possibilities. Will probably read the sequel.
Characters were just angry at each other for no reason or explanation, I guess just for the drama. The character of the guitar player was just ridiculous.
This is the last of the books I received in the Powerless Comic Bento box. It is a detective story set in Portland, OR.A musician has a guitar stolen at the end of a long tour and hires the detective, Dex Parios, to find it. She is a very typical private eye, but that is just fine for this book. Of course, Dex discovers that there is more to the story as she digs into the investigation. She runs across band members and roadies and is confronted by the DEA.The art is great. There is a chase seque...
Dex Parios finally has her own private detective office in Portland and just in time for a new case to come along. When a guitar is stolen from the band Tailhook, Dex is on the case, but things aren't what they seem. Especially when the guitar's owner, Mim, doesn't want to go to the police.There are skinheads looking for the guitar and DEA agents questioning Dex. When the guitar mysteriously shows up, that isn't the end of the case either. Things heat up and all is resolved as the mystery is unc...
Dex gets a case to find a missing guitar belonging to Miriam 'Mim' Bracca. Fabrizio Pullano handles and tunes the guitars for the tour, so he is Dex's first lead. She saves him from a couple of skinheads who attacked him in his home, asking for the guitar. Cathy Chase is from the Drug Enforcement Agency and warns Dex to stay off the case. David 'Click' Mayes is the band's drummer and is worried about Mim going through another stressful situation with bad press. As was the case in the first volum...
The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Guitar CaseI particularly like the double use of the word case there.Dex Parios, Private Eye, gumshoes her way around Portland once more, only this time she won't have to walk those darkened streets alone. Rucka's second entry in the series falls a little flat, in eschewing the darkness and violence of the first Dex Parios case in favour of something more akin to a Kinsey Millhone adventure he dropped the ball a little; it's light and breezy, all surface but no...
