I don’t really know what to make of this series. I don’t mean to sound cruel, but nothing has really happened yet for me to decide if I should continue or not. This issue in particular is composed of two locations and three scenes and basically covers… everything that the last issue covered. While the slowed pacing of the story has left me wanting something other than dialog for the next issue, it hasn’t chased me off yet. Picking up the day after the first issue we find Mave aka Diamond, drinking and in general pissed off at the world. She’s blasting loud music and pissing off her neighbor, but really doesn’t give a shit. She decides that she’s not going to wait for Jerry to figure out anything and heads to the office to see if she can’t get a lead on her sister’s whereabouts. Once she’s at the office though, she discovers that Jerry is still there so the jig is up. Jerry begins to give her his usual lecture and Mave lets us in on the fact that she finds Jerry’s eyes creepy, like he’s always staring at her creepy. Since her plans a bust she decides to give Jerry hell about her costume that we’ve yet to see on. She calls it butt floss and it pretty much is, his logic behind it is that men will be staring at her ass rather than paying attention to the ass kicking she’s delivering… it’s an argument for a skimpy costume that’s for sure.

From there Mave heads back to her apartment and after a bit receives a knock on the door from Moonstone. Things… get a little weird here. I think that it’s being implied that Moonstone “likes” Mave and if she were a male character there would be no doubt about it, but it’s not clear. Eventually they receive some info on Mave’s sister and she chi’s up revealing her Diamond form to Moonstone.

The story isn’t bad, but I kind of hate Jerry. He does seem like a total creep and I still don’t understand how their business model of catching pedo’s works, but hey it’s a comic book. I wish I had more to say about the story, but it was just two conversations. Moonstone and Mave’s conversation was a bit strange and I felt like I was reading an intimate moment between two people, which I’m sure was the point. Diamond’s anger issues are getting a bit old and I’m hoping she works some of it out of her system in the next issue with some ass kicking.

The art is the same as the last issue. If anything the inconsistencies were less in this issue. All of the characters have terribly dated hair styles, but otherwise their design is fine. Unfortunately there’s also not a lot to say about the art for the same reasons as the story. Not much happens. I did like that Mave grows in size when she’s in Diamond form.

I’m definitely on board for another issue, but I hope something other than taking about the missing sister happens. I have a good feel for Mave’s character now, but she’s far too angry and needs to be upfront about her relationship with Onyx to the entire crew. Also she should stop telling everyone about her plans for murder or at the very least they should respond to her. It’s an okay series, but if the pace doesn’t pick up it could lose me.

Score: 2/5

Writers: Mary Jo Pehl & CW Cooke Artist: Nestor Vargas Publisher: Blue Water Comics Price: $3.99 Release Date: 5/29/13