The Undertaker Volume 2 - Xavier Dorison

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Résumé :
In the wild frontier, the dead stay buried. It's the living you have to worry about.In volume two of this exciting graphic novel series, Jonas Crow-the West's most cynical undertaker-just wants to enjoy the quiet life of a traveling mortician. His hearse is fixed, his vulture is content, and the chaos of his last job is behind him. But peace is a luxury a man with Jonas's past can't afford.The silence is shattered when an old colonel delivers a chilling revelation: the Ogre of Camp Sutter, a monstrous surgeon from the Civil War thought to be long dead, is still breathing. For Jonas, this isn't just a shock-it's a summons. Because he's the one who let the Ogre get away.The hunt for the rogue surgeon takes a desperate turn when Rose, Jonas's companion and moral compass, is taken hostage. To save her, Jonas must enter a psychological house of mirrors. How do you stop a man of medicine who views human life as raw material and uses his own patients as human shields?In This Volume:

• Double the Darkness: Collecting the next two chapters of the acclaimed series in a single, escalating narrative arc.
• A Ruthless Adversary: Enter Dr. Quint, the Ogre-a genius, a sadist, and a man who believes he is playing God in the Wild West.
• The Weight of the Past: Explore the scars left by the Civil War as Jonas confronts the soldier he once was.
• Cinematic Visuals: From the claustrophobic tension of a surgeon's clinic to the sweeping landscapes of the American West, Ralph Meyer's art captures every grit-soaked detail.