Skinner Sweet is an evil guy. Throughout American Vampire so far we’ve seen him do all manner of horrible things to people, and this issue is essentially the culmination of all these events to date. There’s a confrontation between Skinner and the child of a man he brutalised in Stephen King’s storyline; there’s an examination of Chief McCogan’s past and his relationship with his adopted father; plus, we get a nice bit of set-up of where this series is heading. Scott Snyder has crafted a wonderfully unique and haunting universe, steeping in reality and myth concurrently; the art by Rafael Albuquerque is gorgeous, too, capturing the monstrosity of the events and bringing a brilliant sense of vision and scale to the forefront of the monumental series. Every issue has been amazing, but this issue has been, by far the most disturbing.