While I wasn’t as into Huck, Volume 2: Big Bad World as I was the first one, Huck Volume 1: All-American, Huck and the Supers are an interesting group of people and their continuation story has its appeal.
Creators Mark Millar (author), Rafael Albuquerque (illustrator), Dave McCaig (colorist), and Clem Robins (letterer), made a world where our hero of book one, Huck (a big, sweet, not the brightest cookie in the jar, but has a big ol’ heart kind of guy), has found himself a girl, loves her son, is having a good time helping folks, and his mother, Anna, is enjoying her new found freedom. But of course, what fun is that? There has to be some trauma or something! Enter a stranger who has found Huck and Anna and asks for their help finding Sophia, a woman he met 30 years ago. A woman who he fell for immediately (but then again, if someone saved me from drowning, I might love them, too). But now that he knows she wasn’t just a dream (she was superhuman, too), he is going to see if Huck can find her. Of course, we have new Big Bads and they’ll do anything they can to stop Huck, Anna and others like them from not only finding and helping Sophia, but others like them as well.
This time around we have more science fiction and fantasy elements, a bigger conspiracy happening, and actual magic. I was a bit disappointed in who the character that is responsible for the first superhumans turns out to be, but it does give the story a hopeful ending. This time we have more violence, too. There are gunshots, obvious blood (but not gore level), and the Big Bads have helicopters and really big bad weapons. The ending felt a bit rushed, one part was a bit unbelievable, I get why one thing happened, but overall, I didn’t find it as satisfying as Huck and his first adventures.
