Art by Michael Avon Oeming, Guy Davis, Adam Pollina, Guillermo Zubiaga, and Cameron Stewart
I find it sort of odd that so early into its existence as a separate, non-Hellboy entity, Mike Mignola would hand over the reins to such a variety of different creators. But that's exactly what he did, in the form of three one-shot stories (joined here
by a new story).Each of the stories follow the usual Hellboy/BPRD set-up of a town under siege by some sort of weirdness, followed by our heroes showing up to deal with it. There's nothing out of the box about any of the stories, but it's cool to see such a variety of talented artists work in Mignola's playground. I especially like seeing Adam Pollina drawing Abe Sapien - he seems to just get the character, and makes him quite unique.
After reading his story here, it's not hard to see why Guy Davis was picked to be the semi-regular artist on this title, as he turns in some great work. The only story here that doesn't really do it for me is the Geoff Johns/Scott Kolins piece, but I've always had an issue with Kolins's art, so it's not a surprise that I didn't like it.
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