Written by Mike Mignola and John ArcudiArt by James Harren
I'm a couple of weeks behind on this, because it was only shipped to my comic store today for some reason.
I really like Abe Sapien, who has been getting the shaft of late in BPRD (assuming he's even still alive - they are being vague about this). He's become a competent and capable agent in recent years, but his earlier missions were marred by his uncertainty.
This story takes place in 1985, which means that Abe has not been a field agent for long. He goes to Maine to investigate the fifty-year-old disappearance of a writer whose work he enjoys, only to stumble upon a bit of a supernatural mystery, complete with a creepy old house and a giant creature in a basement.
Really, the set-up of these types of stories in the Mignola-verse is getting pretty old. I feel like we've seen this exact thing played out time and again in these books, with only the setting and the protagonist switching up. I understand why they are written like this - the formula works - but just once, I would like to see Mignola and his collaborators play with our expectations a little more, and give us some genuine twists.
The art for this book is by James Harren, another newcomer to the Hellboy/BPRD fold. His art is pretty good and is not that different from other newcomer Tyler Crook. It fits the house look of these books nicely. I love the cover by Dave Johnson.
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