The Darkness: Accursed, Vol. 6

The Darkness: Accursed #6

by Phil Hester

OUTER DARKNESS!In one of the most explosive THE DARKNESS arcs yet, longtime writer PHIL HESTER (WONDER WOMAN, GODZILLA) and artist SHELDON MITCHELL (PILOT SEASON: STEALTH) push Jackie Estacado, current bearer of the Darkness, to the brink. Having defeated his enemy, The Sovereign, Estacado had hoped to settle into a quiet, peaceful life in Chicago. But a series of attempts on his life, set him on a path that reunites him with old friends, allies and enemies. However, Jackie soon finds that the most dangerous enemies don't come from outside, but rather, from within...Collects The Darkness issues #90-#95.

Genres: Comics, Urban Fantasy, Graphic Novels

Kindle Edition

First published March 14, 2012

About the author

This Eisner Award-nominated artist was born in eastern Iowa, where he went on to study at the University of Iowa. His pencilling credits include Swamp Thing, Brave New World, Flinch, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Clerks: The Lost Scene, The Crow: Waking Nightmares, The Wretch (nominated for the 1997 Eisner Award for Best New Series), Aliens: Purge, and Green Arrow.

Since graduating from the University of Iowa, he has been in the comics industry for over 15 years.

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sadly, this volume has some awful plot twists with all sorts of past characters returning to get a piece of Jackie. It feels too artificial, just like the 90's style dialogue which is the poorest feature by far, with uncensored curse words which further diminish the quality of the comic. Jackie has transformed into a weakling, so the whole story seems from another book altogether.

Jackie is being pursued by assassins. He gets help from Butcher Joyce, but he has to take on the rebellious Darkness by himself. It's already split itself to other hosts, infecting a whole city. One of them is Clark Mckendrick, an inmate in a maximum security prison, who attacks Jackie on a plane. The plane goes down, but Jackie survives and is picked up by a couple of guys in hazmat suits. They take him to an enclosure with other infected who attack him. He gets overwhelmen and saved by Elle, the girl he created from the Darkness. Capris also comes and kills Elle at one point, then turns to whipping Jackie. The newly-pussified Jackie is saved by the Traveller who gives him the dagger that can destroy the Darkness forever.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume of Top Cow's Darkness story had a lot of action and resolved many of the storylines from the Accursed sequence of trades (often with accompanying references to the previous trade volumes). It collected issues 90 to 95 of the comic, and did end at a point obviously leading to a new sequence meant to build-up to issue 100. Also, to note, the volume begins prior to Top Cow's Artifacts storyline and ends after the completion of that storyline. Overall, the story was a fun tale that wrapped up the threads of Accursed leading up to the arc's finale that I suppose would be in volume 7.

[✨Jess✨ Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy shit, I love this series so much, it's so dark and brilliant! This is my favourite volume in accursed so far, it does so well to bring elements of the earlier comics into it and everything comes together so wonderfully.