Black Kiss II

I've loved Chaykin ever since I first read American Flagg. Transsexual vampires and sleazy heroes - the back story to the first volume and a sequel of sorts.

Not as good as the original but fun all the same

great part 2

BKII has great artwork and I feel Chaykin enjoyed drawing this more than writing it. Most of the writing is stringing together non-vanilla sex-packed vignettes. We get a story at the end but it is rushed and I am not sure we care that much. Did you do it for the money, Mr Chaykin? Fans will enjoy comparing it to the original. Bubba Kenton's demise is different to as described. Beverley is nastier, or maybe just nasty: in BK she was scheming and ruthless but not actually evil. I get the impression that Chaykin did not spend too much time reminding himself what happened in the original and taking notes.

I have to say, Black Kiss was one of my favorite comics from a time when comics where growing up and offered a truly adult vision into the medium.It broke down barriers and its challenging and explicit content was beautifully illustrated by a master craftsman.It was great.So when I found out he wrote a sequel 20 years later, I ordered it straight away.I was left wondering what he was trying to say to the audience.Have no bones, the content is more explicit, violent and graphic than the first Black Kiss, a little short as well, but with the same excellent illustration.I'm going to decide that this is a comment and a graphic portrait of the baser desires that drive us, and that whatever is the shiny veneer of civilized behavior and moral code that is fashionable and being sold to us in a certain point in history, underneath, there is a bubbling undercurrent of desire to perform the most hideous acts to one another, and this remains a constant.The actual story is a part prequel showing the origins of Bubba Kenton and Beverly Grove, then acts as a sequel showing what happened after the events of the first book.All I want to say is that its an ending for the story, don't expect kittens and unicorns though.I'm just left wondering if we have been shown a bit too much, whilst the first book was graphic, it was classy, I feel that this book started to lose that class.Being as this was 20 years later and would need to meet the expectations of our current climate, I wonder is this also is a comment.Still, good book though.