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Chastity Vol. 2 #1-5
Chastity Vol. 2: Blood & Consequences (Chastity
Chastity Jack has been kidnapped, to the great misfortune of her kidnappers. She, along with a dozen other young women, arrive at an audition for a prestigious New York City burlesque act hoping to land a coveted spot in the popular show. When they wake up in chains on a spooky cruise ship in the middle of nowhere, they're congratulated on joining the cast. Realizing they've been drugged and kidnapped by human traffickers, Chastity Jack declines the offer. Grindhouse-style.
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133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 16, 2021
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Leah Williams
243 books211 followersLeah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.
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August 10, 2022
Chastity gets kidnapped by a human trafficking ring. Plenty of action, great dialog and great illustrations. Highly recommended.
June 23, 2021
Chastity, half-vampire hunter of evil, is trying out for a Burlesque show when she ends up on the wrong end of a human trafficking ring. The human traffickers don't know who they're messing with but sadly turn out to be a nastier group of customers than our antiheroine initially intends. It's a very over-the-top Saints Row-esque series of comics with more than a little bloodshed. Personally, I loved it and had a lot of fun with it. I was hoping Chastity and the CIA agent would develop a thing, though. If you like an R-rated murderous Bloodrayne-esque comic then this is your bag. Chastity is on the side of the angels, though. Sort of.
July 10, 2022
I came to discover the character of Chastity back in 2015, when looking for something new to read on Comixology. In 2014, a short series featuring the character was published by Dynamite. My understanding is that it was a soft reboot for the character, who had been featured in crossover content in the Dynamite canon for quite some time.
The 2014 storyline was an origin story introducing us to Chastity Marks, a teenage gymnast who becomes a half-vampire after being attacked by a full-blooded vampire who moves among human society in the guise of a best-selling author. The story seems to be setting up an ongoing series... and then it ends. Nothing new was published for years, until suddenly in 2021 a new five issue arc was released.
Bizarrely, the character is now called Chastity Jack, and none of what was being set up in the previous arc is followed up on. Here, Chastity is still a half-vampire, but now she's a struggling actress. While attending an audition, Chastity and her fellow thespians are drugged and kidnapped by a human trafficking ring.
And really, that's the crux of this story. Until the final issue there is little in the way of supernatural shenanigans: it's just Chastity and a lot of terrified kidnapping victims trying to escape from human traffickers. It's not really what one expects from this series based on the first arc, but that doesn't make it bad. It's a pretty good read, and Chastity is still a really interesting character to follow.
The supernatural elements ramp up in the final issue, and the book does seem to do some seed-laying for a future storyline... but after issue 5, the series has once again gone dormant. It's July of 2022 as I write this, and there has been no word on further issues of Chastity.
They're good when the come, but the long gaps between publication are frustrating. There was nearly a seven year gap between the first arc and the second. I hope it doesn't take another seven for the next arc.
The 2014 storyline was an origin story introducing us to Chastity Marks, a teenage gymnast who becomes a half-vampire after being attacked by a full-blooded vampire who moves among human society in the guise of a best-selling author. The story seems to be setting up an ongoing series... and then it ends. Nothing new was published for years, until suddenly in 2021 a new five issue arc was released.
Bizarrely, the character is now called Chastity Jack, and none of what was being set up in the previous arc is followed up on. Here, Chastity is still a half-vampire, but now she's a struggling actress. While attending an audition, Chastity and her fellow thespians are drugged and kidnapped by a human trafficking ring.
And really, that's the crux of this story. Until the final issue there is little in the way of supernatural shenanigans: it's just Chastity and a lot of terrified kidnapping victims trying to escape from human traffickers. It's not really what one expects from this series based on the first arc, but that doesn't make it bad. It's a pretty good read, and Chastity is still a really interesting character to follow.
The supernatural elements ramp up in the final issue, and the book does seem to do some seed-laying for a future storyline... but after issue 5, the series has once again gone dormant. It's July of 2022 as I write this, and there has been no word on further issues of Chastity.
They're good when the come, but the long gaps between publication are frustrating. There was nearly a seven year gap between the first arc and the second. I hope it doesn't take another seven for the next arc.
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