Briggs Land Volume 2: Lone Wolves
Brian Wood, script; Mack Chater, art; Lee Loughridge, colors; and others
Dark Horse Books, 2018
Grace Briggs is now in charge of Briggs Land, but the situation is still far from settled. With everyone on edge, it may be understandable when a chance encounter with two hikers who have mistakenly entered Briggs Land leads to a hostage situation. It looks like one overreaction after another to me, so I had trouble buying that plot line. But it results in an escalation in Federal surveillance, culminating in a helicopter being fired upon--and the killing of the citizen who fired the shot. Flashbacks finally show how Jim Briggs wound up in prison. He makes a move to reassert control over Briggs Land from there, only to find himself outmaneuvered by Grace, which finally firmly establishes her control. There is also a lovely single issue in which a Briggs wife comes to terms with leaving her old life while on a road trip with a young woman considering an abortion.
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