Hellsing: Volume 2

by Kohta Hirano, 189 pages

The Hellsing organization's headquarters suffer a debilitating surprise attack at the hands (and fangs and claws and guns) of a foul-mouthed pair of undead brothers and their horde of cannibal ghouls. Sir Integra dispatches Alucard and the others to combat the invaders, but she soon learns she'll have to face more than just her present unsavory visitors; there's also the matter of the greater evil that sent them. To accomplish that, she must find out everything she can about the mysterious "Millennium" group, even if it means sharing information with (the devoutly Church of England) Hellsing's despised rival, Iscariot--the Vatican's own secret anti-forces-of-darkness division. To say the two do not get on well would be an understatement. But as neither of them are fans of occult-obsessed Nazis, they may be able to hold back the urge to destroy each other just a wee bit longer. Maybe.

This series just gets bloodier and nuttier. One of the hooligans in the surprise attack looks confusingly similar to Integra, but that small quibble is overshadowed by the exceedingly eager Alucard's crazy-scary transformation into...something...else. Yikes! Also, Police Girl's desperate tactic to stop Alucard and Iscariot's Father Anderson from coming to disastrous blows in the British Museum is pretty funny.

Not for the sensitive, this, but fun just the same.