Seed of Destruction provides a little of Hellboy's origin story, but jumps quickly into the action. Freaky characters, Nazis, explosions and dark comedy. A super fun read. He has the ability to make a page come alive, even if it's filled with the undead. For me, this series was the quintessential combination of evocative imagery and a story that showcases the human condition in the worst of times.
I kind of fell off once Tony stopped doing the art, but undoubtedly one of the best. The storyline in this miniseries [by Alan Moore] negates everything we thought we knew about the creation of The Swamp Thing , by way of a burning research scientist falling into a swamp, so the reader begins with a new understanding of the monster we always thought had human origins.
It's cool to see an old character in such a new light. The Swamp Thing 's had a few reincarnations with different creative teams over the years, but I think with Moore's poetic dialogue and captions — the character finally finds a real home here.
It's minimalistic, smudgy, very dark. It's scary. Templesmith's monochromatic tones have intent and impact here, always driving the plot. Nile's take on the vampire genre is smart and more importantly, fresh. As a kid, these were my "gateway" to the genre, both the old comics — or the reprints of the comics, I should say — and the television show.
The Crypt Keeper is up there with Batman and He-Man in terms of my childhood memories, falling somewhere between funny and terrifying. There's an innocence about the gore in these stories, with the horror kind of dimming in light of the lesson in morality. The pair head back to the Kilgannon home, but are caught in traffic. When Claudio finally makes it home, he says goodbye to Newo, and is shocked to find the door has been smashed in.
Confused, Claudio heads inside. He fumbles with the light, realizing the electricity has stopped working, and as he moves forward, slips on a liquid on the floor. As his eyes adjust, he discovers the liquid is blood, and sees the dead body of his sister, Josephine. He crawls over to her, and an energy pulsates from his hand, temporarily reviving her.
He asks her what happened, and she tells him about what happened to her and Patrick in Jersey City with the Devils. As she tells him this, one of the Onstantine Priests sneak up behind him, and she offers him her final words: "Claudio, my dear Claudio Claudio discovers he can become invisible and intangible, and uses this new ability to escape the monster. After running from the Priest, Claudio visits Newo's house and watches her while she sleeps. He writes her a letter , and then leaves without saying goodbye, taking with him a picture of him and Newo.
He uses his intangibility to steal a gun from a shop and scurries through dark alleys to avoid being seen by police. He finally reaches a nearby dump and stows away on a garbage scow know as the Guile Griever. Once on board the Guile Griever, he discovers a secret compartment filled with hundreds of alien beings, Stars , locked in iso-chambers.
One of them breaks free of its container and attacks Claudio. It is shot down by Red Army soldiers. The Star would later be called a hero by its peers, known as the Hearshot Kid. The garbage scow touches down Shylos Ten , the Fence's "quiet planet," where the Red Army performs its brutal interrogations. Claudio is soon befriended at the camp by Star Cecil, a friendly slave who takes Claudio under his wing and shows him the way of the Stars.
While Cecil takes Claudio on a tour of the camp, they stumble across a Red Army soldier beating a Star with a rifle. Claudio becomes angry, reminded of his tortured adolescence at the hands of high school bullies. He becomes invisible and seizes the gun from the soldiers, beating them with it and saving the Star. Cecil is disappointed in Claudio's foolish actions and tells him he should not have done that. Later that day, Claudio retires to the barracks with Cecil, and massive earthquakes begin to shake the planet due to the diminishing of Star VII energy at the hands of The Monstar and The White Ruineer.
In the middle of the quakes, a newly-transformed Priest bursts into the barracks and attacks Claudio, shouting, " Crowing die! Claudio meets up with Cecil the next day and shows him a copy of The Book of Ghansgraad he stole from one of the soldiers lockers. Outraged, Cecil states that Claudio has caused nothing but trouble since his arrival and demands that he leaves the camp.
As he walks away, he looks down to his gun, with the word Neverender engraved on the side. He reflects upon his life and wonders if it is really worth changing. At the end of the story, six years have passed. An older, bearded Claudio now walks the streets of a ruined city on Shylos Ten. He still looks to the pictures of his family and of him and Newo for comfort.
He retreats into a sewer, covering himself with a manhole grate. He does not believe in heroes. He does not believe in anything anymore. Who cares? Your dreams can't last forever. He calls her, waits for her to pick up, then immediately disconnects. Discouraged and nervous, he paces through her yard and runs into an aged Apollo. During his greetings to the dog, Claudio is interrupted by the ghost of his father Coheed , and blames him for destroying his family. The apparition eventually leaves Claudio and he recounts his adventures to the hound.
Revealing that he spent a decade hiding on Shylos in the city of Godder Damm, he one day utilized his powers against an abusive father, making him love his daughter. However, this attracted the attention of an Onstantine Priest, which was intercepted by the fallen prise Ambellina.
After many an argument with the ghost of Coheed then, Claudio tries to gamble to gain passage off of Shylos Cheating his way past unsuspecting opponents, he is beaten by a freighter pilot by the name of Al the Killer , who has encountered him frequently in Godder Damm. When Inferno and the Prise capture the Supreme Tri-Mage on Silent Earth: 3, Claudio celebrates with the rest of the population of the city on what they see as the downfall of Ryan's regime.
However the Onstantine Priest who has been pursing him finally catches up and tries to kill him, but is once again stopped by Ambellina. They return to Claudio's home, where Claudio expresses doubt at Ambellina's belief that Ryan still poses a credible threat. He goes to take valuables off dead Red Army prisoners, one of the ways he had made a living while on the planet, and discovers the IRO-bot known as Sizer badly damaged but intact.
Determined to repair him, he begins to do so, briefly stopping to witness Wilhelm Ryan's execution at the hands of Inferno. In roughly a day, he has Sizer nearly complete again, only for the mutated cannibals known as the Narrows to assault Godder Damm following the resurrection of Wilhelm Ryan.
He and Sizer rescue Ambellina and Al from the monsters, with the later offering them passage off-world. Claudio accepts, on the condition that they go to Camp Si-Revody and rescue Cecil, which Al agrees to.
Upon arrival Claudio, Sizer, and Ambellina storm the compound. During the assault, one of Claudio's energy blasts misfires and strikes Cecil, casting him into the Keywork. Claudio tries to save him, but is too late. The resulting mixture of energy destroys the furnace and Si-Revody, with Claudio swearing to murder Ryan for what he has done. On the flight to Apity Prime where Inferno has engaged Ryan's army, Ambellina discovers Al is a serial killer, and is paralyzed by the madman.
Claudio fights him off and they crash onto the surface of Apity Prime, with the two of them continuing to skirmish until Claudio drives Al rabid with his powers and sends him to his death against the Red Army. Upon arrival on the battlefield, Claudio is greeted by Inferno himself, who recognizes him as his nephew. Supported by Chase , Claudio joins the fray, and battles it out against Vielar Crom's enormous metal body.
Creating an energy pulse so large that it cripples House Atlantic, Claudio escapes aboard the Grail Arbor and joins Inferno's rebellion, reluctantly accepting his fate to become the Crowing. When he finishes his story to Apollo, he departs from Newo's house, and while Apollo tries to follow him Claudio wards him off, saying that where he goes the dog cannot follow.
Stating that he is headed for the heart of the system, marching towards the end of days, he declares defiantly:. This chapter of the story opens up with one of Claudio's dreams. He has a vision of himself, garbed in the uniform of an Onstantine Priest sitting at a table with twelve sheets of paper spread out in front of him.
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