Well, with this issue, our book gets the chance to go into a different direction. I enjoyed the first story. I think that it's purpose was actually to establish the House as a character in the plot. It's just never been thought of that way. We start out with a beautiful Glen Fabry cover. I never really noticed it before, but I think Glen definitely has a Linsner influence to him. Or maybe vice-verse. Anyways, it seems this book is going to focus around our misguided cast of characters . . Fig, Harry, Ann and a few others. This issue starts out with a story. It's about Ann and her days as a terrorizing pirate of the seas, and how she lost her heart when she wasn't looking. As has been the theme through this book so far, the characters are trying to hatch a scheme to escape from the house. Unfortunately, in this house, things never go as planned. Matthew Sturges writes the book, and Tony Akins does the art for the story of Ann. The main story of the book is still drawn by Luca Rossi. He's got kind of an old Rick Leonardi type feel to his stuff, or maybe Luke McDonnell. At least in parts. There's a couple of panels where Harry really looks like Rick Flag . . you remember, from Suicide Squad. Anyways, the books interesting. Kind of in the way that Jack of Fables is interesting. It's a departure from the usual super-hero genre that I mostly read. And it has a soap-opera kind of feel to it. I'm trying not to compare it to any of the old books in the DC 'ghost' line of books. I think it definitely has potential. We'll just have to wait and see.
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