Is there a more talented supernatural comics storyteller than Mike Mignola? Preview Wednesday's issues of Hellboy and Witchfinder in the gallery above before you answer that.
Writer/artist Mignola shows off his time-tested talent for keeping tired horror tropes seriously creepy in the final issue of Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead. The eerie visuals get a boost from Batman artist Scott Hampton and Hellboy colorist Dave Stewart, who turn the latest vampire escapade of Earth's coolest demonic do-gooder into a neo-gothic nightmare packed with panicked gunfights and hungry undead.
In supernatural Western Witchfinder, occult investigator Edward Grey – who has appeared in Hellboy and its apocalyptic spinoff B.P.R.D. – gets his own five-issue miniseries. Co-written by Mignola and John Arcudi, it's more straightforward horror than Hellboy or B.P.R.D., but it remains an intriguing exploration of the Wild West's occult possibilities.
The debut issue of Witchfinder reunites Mignola with artist John Severin, an EC Comics veteran and founding cartoonist at Mad magazine. Severin joined the Hellboy franchise in B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs.
Images courtesy Dark Horse Comics
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