Blood of the Virgin returns with a special double sized penultimate chapter. Starting with an overture set during the Holocaust of World War Two, the story jumps time and space to a small town in New Zealand where holidaying mother and wife Ida makes a long overdue visit home while Seymour toils on in Hollywood. While there, she overstays the romantic reverie of old flames, family bitterness, and small town routines in an attempt to forever avoid her own life till a sudden violent jerk snaps her back into the cold water of reality.
Probably the best issue yet of Crickets and the best chapter of "The Blood of the Virgin," this double-sized issue is both vast in scope (including a silent flashback that encapsulates one woman's horrific experience of the Holocaust) and intimate in its particulars (the drunk and drugged excesses of life in Dunedin in New Zealand). Wonderful.