Monstress: The Blood is the second volume of these beautiful comics by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. Maika joins a pirate crew to beg passage to the Island of Bones, with the hopes of learning more about her mother. Obviously, lot's of people still want Maika dead or captured and there's new beasts in the deep. This was more of a straightforward story and wasn't quite as strong as the first but I'm still looking forward to the third instalment later this year.