Joe Hill's Rain #2

It's rare that a second issue is as good as the first, but a dare say, Rain #2 may be even better. Read Full Review

After the horrifically violent first issue, this issue develops Honeysuckle while allowing the wider characters given just enough visibility to allow you to make a judgement on them. It's a useful vehicle to grow the story from her point of view without obsessing over the reason for the killer rain. Read Full Review

Overall, #2 is a great continuation to Honeysuckles powerful storyline. It maintains the pace and the expectations from the first issue, and leaves you waning for more! Bring on #3! Read Full Review

Thorogood delivers some visually compelling and beautifully detailed moments on every page. The visual focus on character is amazing and the style puts the reader in the shoes of the character as she experiences the events around her. Read Full Review

Joe Hill's Rain #2 continues the story after the last issue's gory climax, spending more time with Honeysuckle and her friends not impacted by the disaster, adding new layers to them and laying the groundwork for an expanded view of that world. It mixes emotional and humorous scenes with scenes of gore and terror, and the whole book has a wonderfully creepy sense of doom throughout. Highly recommended. Read Full Review

What now? Well what now is Honeysuckle keeps moving forward. Never back. There is a lot of messaging in Rain so far. Issue #2 tells us never back down. Put on your best shitkickers and put one foot in front of the other. Read Full Review

Not really in content, but in form, Rain #2 reminds me of the better Vertigo books which would pair a prose stylist with a skilled visual storyteller to create comics bursting to the seams with information while also being fun to read and follow. Read Full Review

It's hard to watch people suffer so, but this work is presented so compellingly that it's just as hard to look away. Read Full Review

The main story has come into focus with a new character coming into play, but it's still a little slow in the pacing, which may not be for everyone. Read Full Review

25yrComicBookFan

Feb 26, 2022

This should have stayed as a novel.