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Abe Sapien, Vol. 2: The Devil Does Not Jest And Other Stories (2012)

by Mike Mignola(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1595829253 (ISBN13: 9781595829252)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dark Horse

series

Abe Sapien

review 1: More Hellboy-style adventures for Abe, with him meeting various monsters and/or demons, which is all nice enough, but nothing mindblowing. There's a pretty good story illustrated by Peter Snejbjerg that introduces the character of Iosif, who would go on to lead the Russian SSS, which is their version of the BPRD. He's just a bloated corpse here though, which is gross but memorable. There's also a striking story about a demon and some monsters that's illustrated by James Harren in his first work in the Mignola-verse, and it's easy to see why they wanted to bring him back for more. But this stuff is pretty non-essential, so I'm curious to see where they go with the next volume of the series, which takes place in the "present day", rather than telling stories from Abe's past ... morewith the Bureau. Now that I've read all these volumes, I get to start complaining about the direction the creators are taking the series, right?
review 2: Unbelievable.... I must say I was excited when I was able to get this on Netgalley. I stopped reading everything else to read this! I must stay I wasn't disappointed.I was enthralled with all of the stories in this volume and couldn't put it down, at all. Each was engaging and dynamic with the action. Abe's cool demeanor though is refreshing. He is wonderfully logical and though he may lose it every once in a while it's well deserved. I love the artwork though children creep me out a little and the last story make me shudder. The monsters really weirded me out and honestly that doesn't happen often. I believe I may just have to start purchases all of these because I just want to reread them over and over and get a much better look at the artwork within the volumes.A must read! less

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