Issue two starts off with an introduction to Mary Seward. Now Mary, Queen of Blood. How imaginative! See? She's a vampire and she eats blood. And maybe it's also a play on both Bloody Mary and Mary, Queen of Scots. Or maybe it's not a play on anything and she just really likes blood. Because she's a vampire.
My mind is like a hamster wheel!
Doesn't everyone think it's amazing to be themselves?
Mary, Queen of Blood, has started a revolution. Her vampire army will no longer be relegated to the shadows and the sewers. No more will they hide in dumpsters or cower in sheds. Hmm, vampires are a lot like raccoons.
Last issue, Mary tried one last time to get Andrew to follow her in her conquest of the human world. This issue, though she longs for him to be at her side, she plans to cut off his head.
But she doesn't. She fights with him. He fights back. Neither one's stupid heart will allow them to kill the other. And Mary's vampire army doesn't have the strength or the experience to kill Andrew. So she walks away from the fight while he struggles. And that's pretty much it.
This issue was fairly short on content mostly because it seemed to repeat itself more often than it needed. Perhaps it was trying to be a little clearer and more straight forward than the first issue. You know, blunt. The story repeats the point a few times that the vampires are freedom fighters fighting for their lives. Andrew thinks humans are innocents because he sees them as individuals. Mary sees them as monsters because she sees the atrocities nations and governments can cause. She loves him. He loves her. He threatens to kill her and doesn't. She threatens to kill him and can't.
I'm not convinced this second issue needed to be written. She even remarks how they horrified and humiliated Andrew by killing a bunch of humans in front of him. But we even saw that at the end of the last issue! This issue just seemed like someone thought the first issue was a bit too confusing so they needed to repeat everything here. Kind of lame. But I hope the third issue picks up where the first one left off.
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