Story: "Episode Two: Petty Magicks" (25 Pages)

Credits:

Gary Ushaw (plot, script)
Warren Pleece (pencils, inks, colors)
Gaspar Saladino (letters)
Shelly Roeberg (associate edits)
Karen Berger and Alisa Kwitney (edits)

Feature Character:

Jack Kellor

Supporting Characters:

Jack's mother
Sarah Kellor (next in issue #5)
Floyd
Ella (first appearance; Jack's sometimes-girlfriend and a street-level crimeboss)

Villains:

The Bocor (also in flashback preceding flashback in issue #1)
Robert Merz
John Kellor (in flashback preceding flashback in issue #1)
Pucciano Sr. (first appearance; a rival criminal; in flashback)
Dirty Fowler (first appearance; a rival mob lord; dies in flashback)
Kellor's underlings (die in flashback)
Fowler's underlings (die in flashback)
one of the Bocor's Ju-Ju zombies (first appearance)
a mind-controller of the Puccianos (first appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

Tristan (first appearance; a store owner)
three male prostitutes (all three deceased)

Comment: This issue comes with a free Vertigo trading card.

Synopsis:

Tensions build between Jack and the Bocor. To get away from all the dirty business, Jack visits his friend and sometimes girlfriend Ella, who runs a plain and simple, no-magic street-crime organization in London. Jack needs feedback and tries to explain why he is morally bound to destroy his family, but Ella, short on patience as well as on morals, distracts him with sex. Floyd – who has an old beef with the Bocor – stands by Jack's side in his attempts to shut down the organization. When Floyd finds a way to divert a shipment of cocaine from the Bocor's hands, Jack's drug-addicted sister overhears the conversation and woozily demands her share of the drugs. However, Jack realizes it is not dope that is causing Sarah's strange behavior. He takes his magic-and-drug-deluded sister to the Bocor, who is able to break the psychic link and kill the outside power that mind-controls Sarah – a magician of the rival Pucciano family. But when Jack demands to know how rival families are managing to get their petty magicks past the Bocor’s defenses, the Bocor refuses to answer...