I love this book.  This concept intrigued me from the start, not because of the vampires but rather the historical backdrop.  I hope Snyder gets to run and run with it, bringing us right through the past century as, on the strength of the first half year, it could stand as an absolute masterpiece.

With issue six Snyder goes solo on the writing and Rafael Albuquerque gets to focus on just a single story strand.  The first story arc has laid some interesting groundwork and now things shift forward slightly.  Our new backdrop is the building of the Hoover Dam and the difficulties in maintaining law and order when your city's beseiged by construction workers and a smaller number of vampires.  Police chief Cash is a brilliant new character, clearly the best kind of frontier lawman, investigating the death of an industrialist involved in the construction project while at the same time trying to solve his father's murder and hold back the tide of disorder caused by bored workers.  There's loads going on but Snyder juggles everything brilliantly and conveys the history with aplomb.

Albuquerque is equally deserving of praise, churning out unique and atmospheric pencils on a monthly basis that tell the story perfectly.  I've no idea how much research goes into this stuff, but it shows on every page, with him taking us right back to this historically significant time. 

The last page brings this new chapter nicely on track with the stories already told, throwing the three new characters into a collision course with our old friend Skinner Sweet.  Can't wait for next month.