Archer Coe, master hypnotist, is back to performing by day and consulting for the rich and influential by night. Most of his cases are mundane-save his most recent, which ended in quite a few deaths-and that's what Archer expects from his newest client, heiress Nicolette Hardy. Her mother's untimely death has sent her father into a deep depression, and a self-proclaimed mystic, Jane Collins, has taken advantage of his grief by promising him an audience with his dead wife. Archer knows Jane, and he believes she's a fraud. But he has trouble convincing Nicolette's father, and as strange happenings unfold around him, Archer soon has trouble convmore
Jamie Rich, who co-created Lady Killer and You Have Killed Me with Jolle Jones, has found another kindred spirit in Dan Christensen. Reading this second volume of Archer Coe felt like coming home in a way thanks to Christensen's artwork; it's fluid, characteristic, dynamic in places and frightening in others. Rich's story twists and twists again, like a corkscrew domino line, always one step ahead of us, the pages practically turning themselves. This is detective comics as you like it: mean, moody, magnificent, and not without a sense of showmanship. Read Full Review
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