SPOILERS AHEAD!!
This is the other volume that contains one story arc. It’s amazing that the actual title of the story has a reference to the correct number of the eventual volume collecting it. Azzarello must have made his calculations very well.
This feels very much like a classic noir film like The Maltese Falcone. The plot is very complex, the protagonist (Milo) does not know what is going on, and we follow him trying to solve the mystery. It’s narrated in the first person, so we only see through Milo’s point of view.
It all revolves around a painting that Megan wants. In the middle of this we see other familiar faces: Lono, Echo. Slowly Milo unveils all the people behind it, and at the end we have a clearer picture of what went on (though I still have many questions about certain details). Once he/we see the painting we are blown away.
First of all it’s clearly a painting about the Trust/Minutemen, though we don’t know the significance of it until later. But most importantly for Milo, it has the word Croatoa in it. Milo wakes up from his condition, slowly remembering who he is. We also get another flashback to Atlantic City, this time with dialog.
Unfortunately this is the first and last story we’ll read of Milo, since at the end he’s killed by Lono. It’s not exactly clear what happens at the end though. Milo seemed to refuse his past as a Minutemen, putting back his face bandages even though he doesn’t need them anymore. Lono clearly doesn’t know who he really is.
This was a great noir story that dovetailed into a very important piece of the overall plot. It’s too bad that we don’t get to read more about Milo.