Congratulations to BPRD with what has to be the longest
title ever for a book. So for the rest of the week in review I have slipped in
a semi-review of a book from December 26 with Amazing Spider-Man #700 and have
a few brief solo reviews for the last day of 2012. Normally I get into the
doldrums with comics during the end of the year and through the first couple
months. Maybe it was winter and not the comics. This year I’m in Florida and
the last couple months have been great. So with that as the introduction let’s
get into BPRD.
BPRD #102 by
writers Mike
Mignola and John Arcudi with art by Tyler Crook and Colors by Dave Stewart
was f**king awesome. I love BPRD but I also confess that the series has felt
like it was just sort of meandering around. Since the end of the Plague of
Frogs the whole Hell on Earth has been almost a stroll in the park. We have
been introducing an expanded cast, we have had adventures in different parts of
the world and we have seen BPRD become a UN organization. It has been decent
but the cast is large, the story has seemed to have no real core to it. That
all changed with this issue and we got to see what Hell on Earth is all about.
It is all Hell breaking loose on earth.
It was such a revelation, the series felt like it was
treading water and now it exploded. The Black Flame returns and then we switch
scenes and see New York have explosions, Utah, Moscow and everywhere we see
huge monsters come up out of the earth. Devastation is everywhere. We cut to an
EMT and you are wondering why we are checking in on this particular crew. They
are trying to keep a young girl alive Liz Sherman. We get glimpses of a bunch
of cast members, but what makes a huge impact is that we literally have Hell on
Earth.
What had been almost a sleepy series has now been kicked up
to a game changing book. Sadly we do not get back to how the heck does BPRD try
and save the world until May. If you have not been following BPRD and thought
it was too dense and hard to get into the book, I would suggest jumping on with
the next issue in May as all you need to know is Earth is overrun with monsters
and the sh*t has hit the fan.
An enjoyable series has just gotten better.
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