Abbott: 1973: The Battle Becomes Even More Personal in Issue #2 Preview (Exclusive)
BOOM! Studios has another hit on its hands in
Abbott: 1973, and now we ve got your exclusive first look at the anticipated second issue. Writer Saladin Ahmed, artist Sami Kivela, colorist Mattia Iacono, and letterer Jim Campbell deliver another stellar round of supernatural mystery in Abbott: 1973 #2, and as you can see starting on the next slide, the stakes are only getting higher, and unfortunately, not everyone in Abbott s world is going to make it out alive.
The evil Abbott is facing hits her hard in issue #2, taking control of Miss Henrietta and letting her know that she s going to need more than Jade bracelets to stop it. Abbott s up to the challenge, but while she might have won this battle, the evil still leaves its mark.
Dragon, a new graphic novel built around the infamous Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula. But even
that wasn t the full extent of Ahmed s new projects. He also went back to 1970s Detroit and a determined reporter working to get to the bottom of some very dark problems in her city.
This week, Ahmed and artist Sami Kivelä launched
Abbott: 1973, the second volume of their acclaimed BOOM! Studios supernatural period drama
Abbott, which follows journalist Elena Abbott as she investigates threats to Detroit that exist at the strange, dangerous intersection of white supremacy and supernatural menace. This time around, it s a new year and in some ways a whole new world for Elena. She s got a new job at a Black newspaper in the city, a new romance with an old friend, and she s getting better at controlling the strange Lightbringer powers she discovered she possessed in the previous volume. But of course, darkness is still following her, and as the election of Detroit s first Black mayor