Scent

Picking up, as you might expect, where “Lobster Johnson: A Scent of Lotus” #1 left off, issue #2 brings a swift close to this short story. As a fan of the pulp stories that inspired the character of Lobster Johnson, I can’t take too much issue with how quickly things get wrapped up — the pulps were rife with hurried writing, easy escapes and fake cliffhangers. Nevertheless, “A Scent of Lotus” #2 doesn’t pack quite the punch that the first issue did, as it rushes to wrap up all the threads left dangling in #1. The book moves quickly to its conclusion, and yes, readers do eventually learn what’s up with the mysterious killings of Tong couriers in the Chinatown streets. In fact, it’s all laid out directly by the criminal boss who might normally be a target for Lobster Johnson’s one-sided, two-fisted approach to justice, but here is treated as a pal. The story behind the murders is an interesting twist. It keeps with the low-magic approach to the supernatural seen in issue #1, as the kil

Despite being a big Mike Mignola fan, I’ve never really encountered Lobster Johnson before. While Hellboy has a certain mordant humor, most of Dark Horse’s Hellboy-universe offerings recently have been singularly grim. Opening a comic about a hero whose name and symbol suggest that his superhuman power involves crustacean junk, I expected a more light-hearted jaunt through the supernatural. “Lobster Johnson: A Scent of Lotus” #1 defies that expectation. It’s a badass homage to the classic two-fisted pulp stories of the thirties, which were self-serious almost to the point of ridiculousness. From the opening sequence of firecrackers at a Chinese dragon dance to the thinly-veiled racism of a law-and-order cop, the issue is rife with the classic tropes of the vigilante pulps. At the same time, it’s written with thought and intelligence that appears in little details; for example, the footnotes noting triangle-bracketed foreign languages don’t just say “Translated from the Chinese” as ex

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