By Mignola, Arcudi, Crook & Stewart
Publisher: Dark Horse
ISBN: 9781616554026
After what’s felt like a slight slackening of pace and direction, elements begin to coalesce, largely around the return and rehabilitation of fire-weilding Liz Sherman.
Holed up in a hospital low on resources and power, she is attempting to regain her full health under the watchful eyes of her doctor, but after a couple of months he moves on and a more sinister individual with his own ideas about medicine in this post-armageddon world takes his place. Meanwhile Fenix revisits a childhood home and we get a greater understanding as to who she is and where her abilities come from. Both women have to confront their respective threats before, finally, heading for the one place that needs them the most.
Crook’s style is growing on me (although I still do miss Guy Davis’s take on it all) and Dave Stewart’s colouring is second-to-none. The convalescence of Liz Sherman is what really sells this book and it feels like it’s got a direction again, and, possibly, a shot at some form of conclusion.
And if you liked that: Pick up the companion Hellboy storyline
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