Damn you Mike Mignola. . .

. . .you've got my number. Again:



LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE SATAN FACTORY
Thomas E. Sniegoski (W) and Gregory Manchess (Cover)
On sale July 1 b&w, 256 pages $12.95 Novel, 5 1/4" x 8"
Hellboy’s premier crime fighter in an all-new novel!
Where greed and the occult walk hand in hand, where mobsters and monsters prowl the streets, none escape the justice of Lobster Johnson!
In the years before World War II, Jonas Chapel was a respected physician, until his appetite for vice got the best of him and he found himself on the run from one of New York’s most powerful mob bosses. On the lam in Mexico, Chapel stumbles across a powerful witch and a cursed skeleton—and the power to transform men into monsters. Now, he’s back in New York, selling his creations to the highest bidder.


Oh hell yes. Well-played sir, well-played indeed.

Stac

All too easy.

So, Todd McFarlane is bursting back onto the comics scene with an all-new character! I'm sure it'll be something completely fresh and original that's guaranteed to raise the bar for the entire medium! Let's take a look, shall we? Here it is:



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Um. . .it's very. . .I mean it's. . .well it could be. . .agggh can't fight the fanboy snark I just can't!!


IT'S SPIDER-MAN! C'MON! YOU KNOW IT AND I KNOW IT! IT'S A GUY IN A BODY-FITTING LEORDARD SWINGING FROM FLUIDIC LINES! IT. IS. SPIDER-MAN!


All right, so the possibility does exist that this book may in fact be kick-ass, and if it proves so I will be the first to eat the sauteed crow with all the trimmings. But as first impression go, I have to say this doesn't bode well for the return of the monarch of Spawnvania. That's all I'm saying.


But it is Spider-Man. I mean come on.


Stac