While entitled TRIGUN MAXIMUM #2, this volume is the next installment in the story begun in TRIGUN #1 and #2, and continued in TRIGUN MAXIMUM #1. It is therefore really the fourth volume in the popular shonen manga (male-oriented Japanese graphic novel) series that inspired an anime TV show. Having returned from two years of self-imposed exile in a small town, Vash is once again in the thick of the action--and the target of his brother/nemesis Knives's superpowered henchmen, the Gung-Ho Guns. Accompanied by gun-toting priest Nicholas Wolfwood, a cynical man with dark secrets and hidden motives, the pacifist gunslinger is bound for his remote and mysterious home. En route, Vash battles a would-be samurai with an apparently unbeatable technique and helps a young man rescue his mother from brutal loan sharks. As per usual for this series, the black-and-white art fairly explodes with action, but also (with the exception of the usual superdeformed moments for comic relief) sensitively depicts the complexly layered emotions experienced by both Vash and Wolfwood. The book is printed in its original Japanese right-to-left orientation, and also contains a humorous illustrated afterword by the author/artist concerning his visit to an American comics convention.
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