This issue wraps up, literally, Jack's adventures in Vegas. He finds out Dan, his casino boss, lied on his application. He's really one of the Belgians that's been hanging around with Lady Luck. So he dangles him over the balcony, and gets all the information he can from him. He finds out that Lady Luck's been feeding off of all the luckiest winners, from the casino's around town, by eating their brains. She also knows about the Golden Horseshoe that's floating around, and want's to get it so she can take over the world. Isn't that always the case? So Jack finds out where Lady Luck is performing her feeding ceremonies, and goes and disrupts things. First by replacing her chosen meal with Noelle, Gary's in-fatuous dummy, literally. And then by calling Revision to report where they could find Lady Luck. Feeling victorious, he returns to open his casino, only to find that his lawyer is making a play of his own. He's killed Dan, with the golf club that Jack was threatening him with. This causes his to lose the casino, which then goes in to a trust, which the lawyer controls. With the cops hot on his trail, he decides it's time for he and Gary to hoof it out of town. Well . . . ride out in a GTO actually. Which gets destroyed when the owner of the Horseshoe inadvertently flings it in his direction and causes an accident. So Jack's lost his wife, his casino and his car. All he has left is the briefcase. And Gary. So now he's ready to start a new adventure. I've never been overly thrilled about the artwork, in any of the books in this series to date, actually. But I love Bill Willingham's stories. They're fantastic. And unfortunately probably the only thing that's going to keep this book going. But as long as he's here . . . there shouldn't be any problems. We'll see.
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