Fear Case

The titular object is something that was first sighted in WWII with cults, death, and destruction following in its wake.  It could house Jesus’ unborn child’s fetus, or just Nazi gold, nobody knows for sure.  Especially not the Secret Service.  That’s why they’ve made tracking the case down a hazing ritual for new recruits who are given a year to close it before it’s passed on to the next batch of recruits.  Currently working the case are Mitchum and Winters who are determined to actually get their hands on the case.  They know that it was last seen in the hands of an L.A. gang, the Fovos, and one of their members was seen handing off a suspicious package to someone in a high-class neighborhood.  Is this just another wild goose chase?  Or is it the start of a series of events that will include disembowlment, murder, betrayal, madness, and suicide?

A little while ago I reviewed another miniseries written by Matt Kindt called “Crimson Flower.”  It was about an assassin who was inspired by Russian folklore and it felt like something the writer came up with and wrote over the course of a weekend.  “Fear Case” is a little better than that, but not by much.  That’s mainly due to the fact that Mitchum and Withers have a good rapport together, and there’s some actual momentum to their investigation as they get closer to the case and things start getting worse for them.  The real problem here is that the climax of the story comes off as a real nothing-burger in terms of what the case is and what it means to the partners who’ve been searching for it.  This isn’t elevated or degraded by Tyler Jenkins’ art, who provides serviceable work throughout.  It is, ultimately, one for the Kindt completists as it’s not good or bad enough for me to recommend to anyone else.