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Boneyard, Vol. 2

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Richard Moore, Boneyard, vol. 2 (NBM, 2002)

I'm still not entirely sold on Richard Moore's drawing style just yet, but I'm completely hooked by Boneyard's storyline thus far. I wasn't sure how he was going to continue it after book one. After all, Paris and Abbey had already faced down Beelzebub, right? I should have seen it coming: Moore comes up with a scarier adversary than the devil. That's right, the I.R.S. Has come to Raven's Hollow. Seems Paris' granddad was in arrears to the tune of... well, I'll let you find out how much. And, of course, in the world of Boneyard, not everything is ever as it seems. Fast, funny, and occasionally frightening (the scene where Paris finds out the I.R.S. Guy's dark secret will be in my nightmares for weeks), Boneyard is a very, very good read. *** ½

Michael Paris inherited a graveyard full of supernatural inhabitants. In the first book, he fought off Beelzebub who wanted to destroy the graveyard.

Now Michael has a new battle to fight. Now he owes a huge sum in taxes on the property and the IRS is after him. Abbey, Nessie and the others try to help out in their own ways to raise the necessary funds.

Some schemes involve a celebrity boxing match between two of the biggest boneyard inhabitants and a swimsuit issue (issue of what?).

Moore ties his elements together with clear plotting and a clean drawing style. Only two real downsides in this volume. The first is that it is a smaller format than the first. The second is that the plot does not conclude at the end, but sets up a nice cliffhanger.

Make sure to read the first Boneyard book before reading this one. You also might want to check out Moore's Far West.