In the wild frontier, the dead stay buried. It's the living you have to worry about.
In volume two of this exciting graphic novel series, Jonas Crow-the West's most cynical undertaker-just wants to enjoy the quiet life of a traveling mortician. His hearse is fixed, his vulture is content, and the chaos of his last job is behind him. But peace is a luxury a man with Jonas's past can't afford. The silence is shattered when an old colonel delivers a chilling revelation: the "Ogre of Sutter Camp," a monstrous surgeon from the Civil War thought to be long dead, is still breathing. For Jonas, this isn't just a news report; it's a summons. The Ogre is the one man he let escape during the war, a ghost whose survival is a stain on Jonas's own survival.
The hunt takes a desperate turn when Rose, Jonas's companion and moral compass, is taken by the surgeon. To save her, Jonas must enter a psychological house of mirrors. How do you stop a "man of medicine" who views human life as raw material and uses his own patients as human shields?
In This Volume: • Double the Darkness: Collecting the next two chapters of the acclaimed series, featuring a continuous, high-tension narrative arc. • A Villain Like No Other: Enter Dr. Quint, the "Ogre"-a genius, a sadist, and a man who believes he is playing God in the middle of a wasteland. • The Weight of the Past: Explore the deep scars left by the Civil War as Jonas is forced to confront the soldier he used to be. • Cinematic Visuals: From the claustrophobic tension of a surgeon's clinic to the sweeping, brutal landscapes of the American West, Ralph Meyer's art brings every grit-soaked detail to life.
Some men deserve a funeral. Others deserve to be hunted down. For Jonas Crow, the line between the two is about to disappear.
