Issue 2 of British-Irish Anthology comic Vanguard. Featuring the further noir-styled adventures of kick-ass, action heroine Call Malone and her atomic transference gauntlet, as her gadget starts to attract a lot of unwanted attention; the second installment of "Halo and the Gryphon" in which the other-worldly Smoke Demons continue their hunt for the lost Halo...and the Halo finds itself a new -unwilling - host in the from of Zephyr the Gryphon; turn-of-the-century gothic horror in "Mammoth Jack", as young Jamie Swift finds herself at the mercy of a gang of unscrupulous convicts, with nobody to help her but one very pissed off, one-eyed donkey; and Buck Tucker, deceased serial killer, being brought back from the grave by a very unlikely source.