Dear lord, that's a complicated title. (Which characteristic, I might add, is mocked by Lynch in the afterword rather amusingly, too.) The title might well be the most interesting thing about the book, though - it retreats from the in media res nature of the first volume's beginning, and chooses to go back and fill in the gaps of pretty much all of the major characters and also some extras. I certainly understand the temptation to do so from a creative point of view, and I'm glad that they have stories to fill this transitional period for everyone, but presentation -wise it fell more than a little flat, with me. I can't help thinking the tales told in the issues collected herein would have been much better served by having been presented seperately, as flashbacks, when they would have been able to perform some narrative purpose. Getting them all in a glut like this was distinctly unsatisfying, and I was unable to care very much at all about any of the vignettes, despite them having what I can intellectually see as quite a bit of "punch potential", for lack of a better term.
Conclusion: Yawn. I'll give this series at least one more chance before I set it aside, but at the moment, I'm starting to think Joss should either take a more active role in this thing or else get his name off of this project before it damages his reputation, because, damn. I would never have thought sending LA to hell could be this boring.
