STAFF PICKS :: ABE SAPIEN: DARK AND TERRIBLE #1 :: APRIL 3, 2013
SETH’S PICK :: ABE SAPIEN: DARK AND TERRIBLE #1: If you’re at all familiar with the Mignola-verse of characters, you know Abe Sapien’s story is as intriguing as Hellboy’s. And while you could say that Abe has been largely about a creature trying to hold onto his humanity, in recent years Mignola and company have further mutated the fish-man. Now he looks less like a man with gills, and more like a relative of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Fitting, since the Earth has literally gone to hell over in B.P.R.D. Now, courtesy of Dark Horse, Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara and colorist extraordinaire Dave Stewart, we get an all new ongoing series featuring Abe. It’s a fish-man fighting monsters, travelling the ruined Earth, and trying to make sense of what he was and is. They had me at fish-man.