So, when was one of you going to tell me DC is planning to have a Sgt. Rock vs. zombies one-shot, written by Bruce friggin' Campbell, out in September? The one month I can't find DC's solicits anywhere and figure it doesn't matter, they drop that bombshell.
Anyway, here's two third issues.
The issue starts with most of the sequence the previous issue ended with: Mason the cannibal killing that lady and her kid and eating the kid. Not sure why we needed to see that a second time, but this time we get a full-page spread of Mason sitting there, chomping on some part of the kid. Yay? I assume that was supposed to be the final page of the previous issue, which instead ended by reprinting the final page of the first issue.
In other news, the folks trying to track down people with powers are starting to cross paths. Brennar the teleporter gets to some gamer guy in Seoul before Tom the telepath, but when Brennar tries to approach a kid with a Jamie Madrox power, he gets stomped. Tom has more luck. And in developments I barely care about, James and the weed connection guy - oh, they actually used his name in one panel, it's Murphy. Murphy the weed dealer - are trying to improve the control of their powers. Then James decides he wants to do a hold up and leave this podunk town. Possibly not in that order. Well at least he's (planning) to do something.
The weird printing errors are bugging me. James doesn't particularly interest me. I would like to have some idea what the person Brennar is working for is actually doing with these kids. He paid the guy in Seoul, who set the money aside. Do they get to come home, or did Brennar just trick him? What's Tom getting out of his arrangement that helps him? Because using his powers doesn't seem to do him much good. There's been little progress on that front, however.
Dooley ain't dead, but the stiched-together man I suspect is Miss der Abend's grandfather and Kid Frankenstein are on the attack. Seeing as it's daylight out, she's at a bit of a disadvantage. More of one, since whatever passes for that guy's blood has silver in it. Doesn't it have to be blessed silver to make a difference, or does that just make it doubly effective? Either way, Dooley rides to the rescue, after hesitating to kill Kid Frankenstein, because he's still a kid.
With her room (and the soil she collected) no longer safe, there's no choice but to head back to the ranch. She's hurting (which Farrell shows with splotches of pink on der Abend's otherwise very white skin. Looks like someone hastily applied sunscreen, but in reverse), so that's where they gotta go. They might even have a stroke of luck because the religious weirdo living out there has come to town with his followers, asking about the ones who came to visit the night before.
I'm not sure exactly what's going on there. Mr. Manor, the former saloon owner, seems to have lost his wife (or sister) to the cult, but the way she doesn't even look his direction in the one panel we see, suggests maybe there's some mind control. The followers have no issue with attacking and killing the townsfolk when they tell the "reverend" to pound sand. Which makes me wonder if Dooley, having been bitten, is going to prove susceptible.
I doubt it, because I think Seeley and Campbell want Dooley in a clear mind so he has to make a choice. How devoted is he to his mistress? How far is he willing to keep going for her? And how far does her loyalty extend to him, especially if he keeps letting her enemies survive (or just fucking up and missing a point-blank shot at a guy the size of a horse)? Mister Manor opined that a lot of people who don't want to make choices, look for someone to tell them to do what they wanted to do anyway.
Did Dooley always want to kill people, or to largely not care about them? Given how eager he was to get out of the Civil War, I'm guessing no on the former, and maybe no on the latter. If so, then he's got to be wondering what he's doing helping a vampire kill people, even if he justifies it by them being bad people.
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