After rather serious vol 1 (weird outfits a la Clockwork Orange aside) this volume starts as weird as nightmare caused by overeating at night - Led Dent, now back as Constable high on Juice as always, engages the terrorists from Humpty Dumpty and Alice [from Wonderland, although Cinderella seems to be there too :)] and, while showing Flak's determination not to negotiate with terrorists, basically kills off all the hostages together with terrorists in an epic conflagration.

Flak, with d**k swinging right and left decides to leave for Tokyo, where he built the safe haven for rich with clean water and food, and he brings with him murderous maniac Davey and Led in case muscle and firepower is required [and of course all the rich selected by IQ meter at the entry into the ship - this made me laugh I almost choke myself :)]. But what he did not expect is return of Debbie, new protector of Tokyo - she is on the warpath seeking revenge for destruction caused to Tokyo at the end of vol 1 (and if you wondered - she is the ghost from the title).

Art as always is great, panoramas - Flak's residence but also sea beaches of Tokyo - are just wonderful. As I said lots of d**ks and boobs swinging around and we see in general nudity and complete debauchery of the ruling elite (hentai octopus was weeeeeiiiiiiirrrrddd) , but I guess idea is to show how consumerism basically eats and consumes itself. That aside action scenes are just great.

For me this book went a little bit sideways toward cuckoo land, half of it is happening in minds of lunatics like Davey. But the end is good, balances a lot of things (epilogue was buhahahaha moment), we leave Debbie with a loss she needs to come to terms with, and she decides to cope with it through helping others after the events of this book.

Very good SF dystopian book, with accent on how technology is a good slave but terrible master.

Highly recommended. ( )

DNF 23%

I hated the first volume on Libby, which I read because I got this volume in a random pull of a bunch of comics from the library. I knew I shouldn't pick this up, but I am a ratgrrrl with zero impulse control, so I thought I would give it a go. It couldn't be any worse...

Maybe it's worse, or maybe after finishing the first volume and reflecting on how much I didn't enjoy it, I had no more scales on my eyes and goodwill in my heart, but I am now happy (read: sad) to now confirm that these comics absolutely suck.

I hate being negative and generally make a point of avoiding being disparaging or insulting, but these comics are such purile frash that rhwh are insulting to read, so they started it. I wish there was a word for what cringe is attempting to convey, but fails as we are all incredibly cringe and life if better when we accept that. We are also all trash and I absolutely enjoy some trash, as a treat, but this is not good trash or even the good kind of bad trash. It's just such massive edgelord dudebro energy that I am flabbergasted Image publish it and genuinely can't imagine anyone not on the fedora forum on fucking fourchan finding this the least bit amusing.

The art is still rather pretty, but the fucking stupid shit the artist is made to draw...

The writing continues to sound like a joke writer fired by Andrew Dice Clay and the Grand Theft Auto 'comedy and parody' writers team for their work being too obvious, obnoxious, and lowest common denominator.

This comic continues to be an insult to the concept of cyberpunk and I hate it very much. ( )