That luster has lost a bit of its shine, for me. That first book in the series blew my mind with its radical (and awesome) take on, um, whatever, was something I won't soon forget. 
 But this, volume 2, well, I guess I already had the basic world building down after reading the first book, had the characters all in my head, knew the premise... so there wasn't a ton here to hook me all over again. I realize, of course, that graphic novels like these are just collecting 6 issues of the comics and jamming them together for convenience sake. So it's not like the creators waited a long time and then wrote a follow up novel. I'm just picking the story right up from where I left off. 
 And it's still pretty great. But I'm also not running around my house freaking out over it. Which is a thing I totally did when I read the first volume. 
 Also, I didn't feel like these 6 issues had that larger arc that the first 6 had. Ha! That's it. That's a real thing I can complain about, and not a made up thing that I, well, made up because I couldn't think of something real. So maybe I'm not crazy. Maybe there is something different here. I mean, it's still heavily serialized and all that, but whatshisname and his mom go on a quick adventure while whatsthername and whatshisname's dad have bonding time on the ship. 
 Also, mercenary guy rescues a girl. All that was good. I enjoyed it. But it felt a lot like a holding pattern. None of the larger plot points that were introduced in the first Graphic Novel came into play. I suppose that instead of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after 12 issues I'm realizing this is going to be a very long time before the story is told. 
 So, I'm going to have to readjust, sit back, and try to relax.