I’m not a Ram V fan and can’t fathom his popularity - I’ve read his Catwoman and Swamp Thing books at DC, his Laila Starr book at Boom, and they’re all terrible. But apparently These Savage Shores at Vault is supposed to be his best book, and it’s the one that got him those other titles, so maybe I’ll be all turned around on him if I give this one a shot? Uh, no. I won’t say it’s his worst book because they’re all this level of crappiness but it’s definitely not good.
After discovering her estranged ma has died, single white trash female Kat Somerville takes her kid Sybil back to her childhood smalltown home, Comfort Notch, “home of Amurica’s prettiest autumn” (the only time I’ve heard that season described so on that side of the pond - usually Muricans calls it “Fall” because it sounds more Biblical I guess), for the funeral and to take up residence in her ma’s house. But things aren’t what they seem in Comfort Notch. Them fancy trees is killer…
SPOILERS
After escaping a nightmarish home life, teenage runaway Jacey meets shape-shifter David and the unlikely pair become wandering vigilantes, hunting down child molesters. Until one day they come across a political campaign, triggering traumatic memories in Jacey. Her brother Jake was abducted years ago by this very politician and never seen again. And now she will have her revenge…
