And Then I Read: B.P.R.D., A COLD DAY IN HELL
Image © Mike Mignola.
No matter how depressing our world can be, no matter how troubled by war, terrorism and cruelty, the Earth depicted in this series is far worse. It is literally becoming Hellish, with huge, demonic monsters roaming the landscape and skies, and emerging suddenly from the ground at any place and moment with no warning. Imagine the kind of destruction seen in “Godzilla,” then multiply it by hundreds of creatures and locations all over the globe. Nowhere is safe. The agents of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense once seemed to have the power and intelligence to handle their opponents, but those days are long gone, and if you’re among them you can expect to die a horrible death at some point, it’s just a matter of when. Perhaps the most insidious threat seen in this book is a gas that turns ordinary people into Hellish monsters. One boy and his father have survived together for some time, beating the odds, but as one might expect, that can’t last forever, and it doesn’t in “Wasteland,” the first of two miniseries collected here. In the other, “A Cold Day in Hell,” we find out more about the demonically possessed spirit of a cute young Russian girl, Varvara, and what’s really going on with her, a chilling revelation. These books are horrible in some ways, and yet satisfying in others. Maybe it’s the fact that, even in our world of real horrors, we don’t have it as bad as they do. And the monsters of the stories are fascinating in ways that real-life horrors aren’t, at least to me.
Recommended.
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