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AIDP 19. El Infierno En La Tierra, 4: El Motor Del Diablo Y La Larga Muerte (2014)

by Mike Mignola(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Norma Editorial

series

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth

review 1: The series seems to keep plugging along, and yes, it's still pretty good. Two stories in this volume; the first sees Devon trying to escort the psychic girl Fenix back to BPRD headquarters and fighting some monsters along the way, and the second wraps up Captain Daimio's story as Johann figures out where he is and goes after him to get revenge for killing the body that he had for a little while. Of the two, the latter is probably more satisfying, since it's one of the nastier stories the series has had in a while, featuring lots of blood, gore, dismemberment, disembowelment, and just general awful violence. I think it's the debut of James Harren on art, and he's quite good, delivering at least one striking monster moment (when Johann has a vision of a Guy Davis-style creat... moreure ripping out from inside his containment suit) and many, many scenes of Daimio's jaguar-god form eviscerating agents and animals, and throwing down with his Wendigo buddy. I'm not as sold on Harren's human faces, but I might get used to them in time.So anyway, it's a decent volume, but at this point in the series, it's not grabbing me like it was in the pre-Hell on Earth days. That might be due to the absence of at least two of the main leads, it might be that I'm still feeling the loss of Guy Davis, or it might just be that the series is telling quieter stories, building to something bigger (there definitely seems to be something in the offing with Zinco, perhaps a new Black Flame, and we're still waiting for Abe to come out of his coma and Liz to return to the fold). We'll see if the next few volumes manage to go a bit bigger.
review 2: I could just use my same review for "Abe Sapien: The Devil Does Not Jest" :"Fun horror with lots of action.Some of the artwork is a little shaky but for the most part, pretty damn good!"but these stories which are part of a larger context deserve a lil' more criticism.Both books bring in what I consider second-stringer artists (forgive me for saying so) and in both cases with mixed results. It was both disappointing and wonderful what they brought to it.But in this case I felt less forgiving (or accepting) as these characters (which as I said fit in a larger framework) feel more like "sacred" territory, making me almost wish they had been illustrated by Guy Davis.I finished this last night and I am still processing the character development in "The Devil's Engine" and the plot development in "The Long Death"! less

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