So, as this is the last new comic of 2021 for me, all next week will be the 2021 Comics in Review posts. It's nice to know what I'm going to post about ahead of time.
Silas is now a prisoner of the demon, although it insists it won't harm him. In fact, it wants him to kill it, just not until they reach the Pacific Ocean. It's even willing to go hunt for Silas, since he's such an incompetent boob. This does not stop Silas from trying to kill him, but none of it takes. The demon finds a vein of gold and gets Silas a chunk that will buy everything he needs to kill the demon as it wishes, and then some. This involves a boat, explosives, and lots and lots of chains. The demon is quite satisfied, until Silas mentions he's going to use the rest of the money from that chunk of gold to go back to his family mine and dig up the demon's treasure. It really doesn't want him to do that, but it go blown up so I'm sure it's fine.
Most of the issue is brief conversations between Silas and the demon. Little things it reveals. That it's learning English from a Bible, but it's more comfortable with Latin. That it abducted Silas because it knew he would be willing to travel all the way to San Francisco if it meant he got to kill it. Whereas the sheriff and his posse from last issue wouldn't. Quite why it needs to die in the sea I don't know. Because water is the opposite of fire?
The other thing that comes out is that Silas is already looking ahead. Not just his plan to find the treasure the demon stole, which I'm guessing is not what he thinks it is. But also that he wants to see Dorothy, the girl he met last issue, again and convince her to come back with him. The desire for revenge isn't all-consuming. Maybe it hasn't been ever since he met Dorothy. Maybe it hasn't ever been all-consuming. If it was, he wouldn't have run away when he was confronted with it at the end of the first issue.
We get to see the demon's true form, or the closest thing to it so far, and it's not what I would have expected. It's like a mannequin, face devoid of any features, same with the body. Although it seems to have blades that come out of each forearm. Silas describes it as being the same color as the licorice he was eating (hence, "black jack"). It's a curious stylistic choice. It makes it easier for the demon to wear the skin of others as a disguise, but why that approach? Why a demon that tries to hide its nature?
I don't think the series ends here, but I've not seen a solicitation for issue 4 yet, so who knows.
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