Good as Dead #2

Rain streaks down the windshield as a battered, blood-flecked sheriff sits in his cruiser, cigarette dangling from his lips, a pistol in hand, and a grim thousand-yard stare that says things have gone very wrong very fast. Scattered across his lap are pill bottles, syringes, and documents bearing drug names like Fentanyl — a bleak tableau that sets a hard-edged, noir tone right from the cover. David Lapham, Maria Lapham, and Dee Cunniffe deliver a rain-soaked second issue that looks every bit as gritty and unsparing as crime fiction gets.