Volume 5 has two stories being told concurrently. 
 In the first story we get to check back in on Felicia and Gus. Gus is actually adjusting and growing up after Felicia gave him the antidote in the last volume. (view spoiler)[However, when his dormant vampire genes get activated in the end... I wonder what this will mean for Gus. Will he stop againg like a real vampire or will be become more like Felicia? (hide spoiler)] Hobbes shows up and tells her Dracula is real, super evil, and was broken out of VMS headquarters. So basically he lays down a trifecta of cluster-fuck... We also get to meet some new creatures. I would read an issue or two spin off with just that team working cases together. (view spoiler)[ Hobbes sacrifices himself to save the world by blowing the ship carrying Dracula up with himself still on it. Much like Cash did in the last volume. Lots of death explosions in this series! We assume Dracula is dead but we don't get concrete confirmation. So maybe there could be possible story lines in this vein in the future? (hide spoiler)] Also, Felicia becomes the new head of the VMS. I wonder what direction she will take the organization going forward. 
 The second story is an interesting vampire spin on the whole "Red Scare" of the 1950's. We come back to Pearl. (view spoiler)[I thought Henry was dead in the last volume. Turns out he wasn't! But then he dies in the end anyway so why get my hopes up? (hide spoiler)] We finally find out how the VMS managed to put Skinner on a leash. Speaking of Skinner, he's always been such a charismatic villain. Rattlesnake mean and devious. In this volume I think we get to see a bit of his softer side... well, as soft a side as Skinner can have. It started in the last volume in Taipan. I think Skinner is somewhat trying to defend Pearl's honor when he goes after Henry since he was lying to her. Also, when she stabbed him, he found it endearing. His relationship with Pearl has always been complicated. I never doubted that he really does like (love?) her in his own way but he was just a crazy evil vampire all the time which doesn't make the best blueprint for a sweeping romance. (view spoiler)[Now that Henry is really gone, I'm not sure what that will mean for Skinner and Pearl. I'm not sure she could forgive him. (hide spoiler)] 
 I'm interested in the enigmatic "Grey Trader." I know from reading the blurbs that this is the main villain for the second cycle of the series. Abilena has psychic powers now and has this giant vision. I was most excited to see Travis Kidd in it! He's my favorite teenage, rebel without a cause, vampire hunter ever! 
 Excited to move on to volume 6!