{"id":3745,"date":"2015-02-11T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:26:17","slug":"the-adventures-of-gravedigger-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2015\/02\/11\/the-adventures-of-gravedigger-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Adventures of Gravedigger,&#8217; Vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3765\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2015\/02\/gravedigger-vol-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Adventures of Gravedigger, Vol. 2\" width=\"200\" height=\"292\" \/><strong>Barry Reese<\/strong> is back with the second volume of his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-hunt\/new-pulp\/\">New Pulp<\/a> hero(ine): <strong>Gravedigger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For those that missed the first volume, Gravedigger is a hero with a mission. One of a long line of sinners who have died and been given a second chance of redemption, <strong>Charity Grace<\/strong> has three years to take out bad guys or be condemned to hell. Set in the fictional Sovereign City (created by <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/tag\/pro-se-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro Se Press<\/a> publisher <strong>Tommy Hancock<\/strong>), she has plenty to work with.<\/p>\n<p>She is aided in this by a small group of agents she has pulled together, which includes a past Gravedigger. These characters are also part of the storyline as their activities with Charity are shown.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This volume is mainly one novel. We start out with a short sequence that introduces some of her agents and Gravedigger herself taking out one particular occult foe before we get to the main villain: <strong>Pandora<\/strong>. Yes, the Greek legend of the woman who released evils into the world, and has been trying to defeat them. Trapped in a silver skull (which ties to another of Reese&#8217;s works), she now sees evil everywhere, and Gravedigger must stop her.<\/p>\n<p>Per the afterward, Barry is working on the next Gravedigger volume, as well as the next <strong>Lazarus Gray<\/strong> volume (another of his heroes I enjoy), which will continue a storyline started in this work. I can&#8217;t wait for both.<\/p>\n<p>No news on Barry&#8217;s other character, <strong>The Rook<\/strong>, whom he has recently renamed <strong>The Peregrine<\/strong>. I have a hard time getting used to that, as The Rook was the first New Pulp hero I got into when I got back into the pulp world.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Still not used to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Reese is back with the second volume of his latest New Pulp hero(ine): Gravedigger. For those that missed the first volume, Gravedigger is a hero with a mission. One of a long line of sinners who have died and been given a second chance of redemption, Charity Grace has three years to take out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan reviews 'The Adventures of Gravedigger, Vol. 2.' #newpulp http:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-Yp","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[241,1854,80],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-pulp","category-review","tag-barry-reese","tag-gravedigger","tag-pro-se-press"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-Yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21776,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}