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Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown

Mike Mignola is responsible for one of the largest and most entertaining fictional universes in comics:  The Mignolaverse, which encompasses all of Hellboy’s adventures, those of his comrades in the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, his antagonists, and those who came before and after them as well.  He’s also responsible in part for Outerverse, […]

The Seasons vol. 1

While writer Rick Remender has done some extended creator-owned series in his career, “Deadly Class” & “Black Science,” his recent output has trended towards shorter-form series.  Seventeen issues of “Seven to Eternity.”  Fifteen of (ugh) “The Scumbag.”  Eleven each of “Death or Glory” and “A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance.”  Ten issues of “Napalm Lullaby.”  While […]

Where Monsters Lie vol. 2: Cull-De-Sac

Connor Hayes thought he had avenged his mother’s death after he helped burn down serial killer enclave Wilmhurst and nearly every monster in it.  That turned out to be incorrect as not only did its grandmotherly leader Zee survive, but it turned out that his pregnant wife was also part of a murderous family.  Which […]

Helen of Wyndhorn

C.K. Cole, creator of the legendary sword and sorcery protagonist, Othon, killed himself at a relatively young age, leaving his daughter, Helen, in the care of his father, Barnabas, who then hired Lilith Appleton, a stern governess, to turn her into a proper lady.  As Lilith tells the story, that didn’t happen as it was […]