From the award-winning team of Shannon Eric Denton and David Hartman comes a rip-roaring adventure complete with terrifying monsters, sinister cults, and a team of oddballs out to save the world.
Jumping between the 1930s and the modern day, a trio of supernatural investigators band together to stop a cult from resurrecting ancient evils.
From the minds of Oscar-nominated Shannon Eric Denton and Emmy-nominated David Hartman comes a chilling story of a decades-long mission that spans generations of monster hunters as they combat the bumps in the night.
Armed with a mystical knife and prosthetic multi-tool-gatling-gun, Reginald and Debby are the only people stopping evil cults from breaking the barrier between realities.
However, when they find a lab full of human test subjects, they realize the cults’ experiments date back to the 1930s and that Reginald’s own father was involved.
If you’re a fan of supernatural period pieces and cult conspiracies, this is the book for you!
Shannon Eric Denton is a veteran storyteller and artist with credits at Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Jerry Bruckheimer Films, NBC, Disney, Sony, ToyBiz, Marvel Entertainment, Fox Kids, Paramount, CBS, Dimension Films, DC Comics and Nickelodeon.
I felt a bit confused to start with this one, as I wasn't sure what was happening. It felt a bit like ghost busters. There wasn't much to the storyline, but I could see what they were trying to do with building friendships, but I felt the dialogue and scenes repeated itself.
So-so occult actioner, with a weird structure. This starts with one extended fight scene, then we get the fall-out, then we find that the bloke leading the fighting on behalf of us humans against the undead, ghosts and everything else is a long way into his research, so we have another extended fight scene. Then we find it's not over yet, the end. He's got a history in such things, but we're not told what, she's lost her arm to this career and we're not shown why, but hey, they gain Lennie the Golem (or a character you could pitch as Frankenstein's Monster as writ by Steinbeck) – and all of this means very little to the reader.
The fact this is fully in medias res (starting a story in the middle), without an 'in' to what's gone before, and the fact there is no spooky intrigue or problem for our heroes, means the deathly occult underworld here is almost boring. This isn't a long book, so the bits that aren't ectoplasmic duff-em-ups have a lot of heavy lifting to do, and barely get anything off the ground. Two and a half stars.
I really like what Denton and Hartman are doing with their books. A boiled down story of 3 people hunting down those who would sacrifice those for their own greed and power. I like Hartman's art too.
I had a blast with this action-horror tale. It's reminded me of some of my other favorite horror comics like Hellboy and the Nocturnals while also still very much being it's own unique thing.
There's a lot of world building in this volume. So the beginning is a little bewildering as you get to know everything, but once you do there's so much there to love; great characters, an exciting blend of action and horror, and some really pulpy lurid set pieces.
Plus the visuals of this book are breathtaking. The cartoony element gives everything this fun design, but there's still some shocking gore. It's a great mix of salty and sweet. And the colors in this book, POP! I'm excited to see where this goes next.
With thanks to the author, publishers Titan Books, and NetGalley for providing me with a DRC of this comic in exchange for my honest review.
A beautifully-illustrated comic with a plot that grabs the reader from the off and never lets go. The story’s descriptions and depictions of the sacrificing of children are certainly graphic in places but not overly so, but I must say that I didn’t find any of the main characters particularly likeable or engaging. Perhaps that would have been different had the character background information located at the end of the comic been positioned at the start instead, so that readers could get to know them before the rest of the story unfolds.