Veil #2 Review

Title:	Veil
Contributors:	Greg Rucka Toni Feizula
Publisher:	Dark Horse
Issue #:	2
Year:	2014
Pages:	32 Pages
Age Rating:	18+ (Violence, Gore, Adult Themes, Rape)
Story Grade:	C
Art Grade:	A

Veil Issue #2 carries on where Issue #1 left off. We're introduced with a new supernatural element and new characters that gives us a preview, albeit not a fully explained preview, into the supernatural origin of where Veil may have come from.

We find out that Veil is now hunted by a real bad ass, so that makes any future issues really exciting with possibility... if the story can pick up its pace.

I won't give away any spoilers here, but Veil has a way of getting herself and her "protector" into trouble.

The story seems to have slowed a bit in this book and it felt like I was reading the same story as the first book. Much of this book's content might have been "squeezed" into the previous book or dropped completely as it was rehash of the content from the first book. This book could have then been used to focus more on explaining more of the origin of Veil or focused more on the introduction of the antagonist. Instead we get more mystery and a lot pages dedicated to the recap of the first book.

While the mystery worked well in the first book, combined with the recapping of the first book, the mystery got real tired in this book... real fast for me. Greg Rucka really needs to pick up the pace. If he wants to keep me reading future issues, spending half of a book recapping the previous book is only going to lose me as a reader. So by the next book (#3)... it will be removed from my pull list if this isn't addressed... and I don't want that, if for nothing else, simply for the artwork.

The artwork remains top notch. I love the styling and depth in the art.

This remains an adult themed book. Adult themes, violence, attempted rape and gore are throughout the pages of this book. It is the nature of the story. And while Feizula's art really softens the impact of these scenes, they are still there... so parents consider yourselves warned.

All in all I grade this book a solid B. The art gets a back to back solid A for style, depth and character in portraying the grime in the mature themes at play. The story is downgraded to a C for its pace and spending way to much time plodding through re-telling what happened previously.

Until next time.. Happy wondering what's next.