B.P.R.D. vol 3: Plague of Frogs

B.P.R.D. vol 3: Plague of Frogs 

By Mike Mignola & Guy Davis (Dark Horse Books)
ISBN: 1-84576-016-6

The third collection featuring Mike Mignola’s supernatural riot squad from the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense pits the team against some of their oldest enemies as the author ties up a number of loose ends and plot threads that span the entire publishing history of the now-legendary Hellboy.

These challengers of the unknown are called in when a spore monster escapes from one of their storage facilities, and the aquatic Abe Sapien, pyrokinetic Liz Sherman, bodiless psychic Johann Kraus, Roger the Homunculus and psychologist Kate Corrigan have to stop an elder god from turning Earth into a charnel pit breeding ground for giant frog demons.

Amongst all that mood, mystery, carnage and catastrophe Mignola and the unbelievably underrated and unique Guy Davis even manage to give us the origin of Abe Sapien in such a way as to tell everything and still leave us none the wiser. Great, great stuff and a guaranteed successor to the Buffy TV show.

Oh, if only…

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