It took four months, but damn if it didn't make up for the wait.

Despite regular series artist Gerardo Zaffino having some "unforeseen complications" in his life, he teams up with comic dream boat Warren Ellis to make this issue staggeringly memorable - nearly half the issue is spent in wordless tension.

Zaffino and Fuso craft powerful images that display the Mad Monk in all of his brutal glory, and Dan Brown uses an incredible mix of vibrant colors, newsprint-y style impacts, and endless blacks to give the fight scenes real depth. Hell, that's what most people are going on about in #2: the fight scene.