All of the details on the first issue can be found over HERE.

I’ll wait while you read that.

Excellent!  Lets look at issue number 2.

Eugenie and Kiyo are still in bed together when an ice elemental wakes them both from post coitus slumber.  We’ve all been there.  Kiyo knows a surprising amount of battle techniques against Gentry.  It could be dumb luck, or he could be hiding his true self.  Eugenie isn’t at full strength, a fun night will do that to you, but she’s still strong enough to remove the elemental from this plane of existence (although, make note, not from his plane).

If you remember, in the last issue which you should have already read and read my review, Eugenie is scared because the Gentry have learned her true name.  If knowing her name isn’t enough, at least one of them wants to physically know her as well.  Damn.

I’ll stop my recapping  there because I don’t want to spoil too much of the book.

The writing is a type that is sadly rarely seen in comics today.  It is simple yet rich.  Every sentence flows naturally.  There is not one line that makes the reader pause in confusion.  Which leads me into the next point.  Real world exposition!  Eugenie’s thoughts make sense for a person to have.  They don’t seem like over an over explained thought process to get over exposition to the reader.  It is a person in a situation who is remembering things that will be necessary to get her through that moment.  Her conversations with her mother and father (figure) flow in the natural way that families should speak.  Sometimes too much information, sometimes too little, giving in, holding back but also packed with information.  Even when nothing is said.

Which brings me to the art!  There is this look that Eugenie gives her father figure, Roland, that says more than any dialogue could.  She’s looking away in embarrassment, biting her bottom lip, turning her body away.  I’ve never winced and cringed with a comic book character before but I wanted to hide under the blankets in mutual uncomfort.  This comic should be used as an example of how comics do things that no other medium can do.  Only through this pairing of words and pictures can moments leap from the page and into the hearts of fans.

Speaking of fans, I’m sold on Richelle Mead.  Years ago, while working at Borders, I discovered Patricia Briggs and Mercy Thompson and fell in book love.  Since then I’ve been looking for an urban fantasy character that I could hold at that same high level.  Everyone has fallen flat.  Until Eugenie Markham came along.  Buy her books on, well damn near every newsstand as far as I can tell.  And by all means pick up this series!

I’m going to wait to get into a few things for when I review issue 3.  Things are building up in this issue and I want to wait to discuss it.

Tune in and take my advice.  Purchase every issue of Storm Born!