The Engineer: Konstrukt starts fast, laying out the central conflict on page one of the book. An immense, ancient entity of the Lovecraftian variety is devouring the universe. One thing can stop it: the Konstrukt, an equally ancient device of mysterious origins. The only catch is that the Konstrukt is broken, its many cogs and wheels scattered throughout the fabric of space and time. The Engineer is one man tasked with finding these pieces and reassembling the Konstruct, enabling life as we know More...

I was sitting with Child and I looked at him. I'm sorry, I said. I just can't go on with it. Is it okay if we do another book instead?
He nodded--and ran to get some old (so far, not good) Green Lantern graphic novel...
Some books have everything you want: unconventional heroes, mishmashed genres--but I just couldn't get into the spirit of this one--I don't know why....
It could be because it still had the story arc of saving the Universe from Unspeakable evil (I kept thinking More...

Excellent! it's like Mister X took on the personality of Hellboy and Spider Jerusalem. The Engineer was chosen by three amorphous and powerful witch-creatures to retrieve the pieces of a device that can manipulate space-time (which is needed to combat the evil god-creature that is consuming the universe). He receives musical scores which, when played on a mighty alchemical pipe organ, transport him to the location of the next piece. Where he usually gets beat up. Assisted in his lab by his trus More...

OMG, the colors! And the art! Not to mention a cool story and who doesn't love huge glorious organs? The kind that play music, get your mind out of the gutter!

Bold and vital art, highly cliched story. The short story in this hardcover was the funniest bit.

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