B.P.R.D., Vol. 8: Killing Ground
If you love the movie The Thing, you’ll find the latest B.P.R.D. arc familiarly satisfying. Almost entirely confined within the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development’s immense Colorado mountain facility, it has the series’ heroic field team fighting one monster that escapes from its supposedly impregnable steel crate and then, after it crashes out into the surrounding wilderness, another that may be team leader Benjamin Daimio in shifted shape. Comic relief comes from usually ectoplasmic team member Johann Kraus’ attempts to get back to base to help out after a night out carousing in his new Incredible Hulk–like body. Guy Davis’ art matches the movies in decorative mayhem. --Ray Olson