Sundowners Volume 2

Sundowners #7-11

by Tim Seeley, Jim Terry (Illustrations)

When the Sundowners are on the run from the Chicago police, a stopover in Detroit uncovers the motor city's supervillain underbelly! Meet Mr. Christmas and his little helpers--he knows when you're sleeping, and he's not too happy that the Sundowners are coming to town . . .

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 8, 2015

About the author

Tim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Batman Eternal and Grayson. He is also the co-creator of the Image Comics titles Hack/Slash[1] and Revival, as well as the Dark Horse titles, ExSanguine and Sundowners. He lives in Chicago.

Reviews

[alexander shay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this volume a lot better overall, but I confess this doesn't feel like a 2 volume series. The conclusion felt rushed and incomplete, and the two volumes together felt more like the establishing of an ongoing series than a limited series. The characters were just starting to get into their roles and accept themselves, even though supposedly the big bag they fought is/will be the only big bad. I err on the side of believing what they saw/felt was actually real, that they have some sort of ability to see things others don't. But, the entire setup of both volumes definitely doesn't give any concrete evidence for that (or for them being definitively crazy). There are even panels where they are shown to be fighting 'thin air'. Even if they are all delusional, collective delusions is a psychological phenomenon that greatly interests me. But as a reader I'm not a fan of such ambiguity; even a little bit of a hint as to which direction the author was thinking would have enhanced the work for me personally.

[Josh Cleverplacehölder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another romp in the Sundowners world—a real shame it only lasted 11 issues. As in Vol. 1, the door is left open (though not as wide) for this all to be a delusion. The series continues to be darkly comedic… and also just dark. The big bad, Mr. Christmas, is terrifying as is his drug, Gift. He actually seems like he could have been the inspiration for James Tynion’s diabolical masked Santa in The Deviant. As I think back about this series, it really does bum me out that Seeley didn’t get more time to build out this universe. From the reviews, it’s clear that this didn’t hit for many readers, but I hope folks will continue to find and enjoy it in the future.