Colder: The Bad Seed #4

Published by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: Jan. 28, 2015
Writer: Paul Tobin
Artist: Juan Ferreyra
Cover artist: Juan Ferreyra
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That Swivel can't stop collecting fingers for the harvest, and in his usual grand (and funny) fashion he collects more seeds but this time with a good bit of assistance from some horrific familiars. This issue gives a nice nod to the best hockey team in all the land, even though the guy wearing the Bruins jersey bites the big one. At least a disgusting Canadiens logo isn't soiling up the pages. While Swivel's off having a nice time, poor Reese is trapped in the insane realm, still looking for Declan.

Following a trail of fortune cookies, she moves through doors and finds Declan but alas, it is but another memory or vision that deepens his mystery even more. She meets a dairy farmer who twists and wrings milk out of insane people like they were dish rags, and she meets a nice old lady who needs help hanging a picture on the wall. She runs into Swivel of course, and to an unresponsive Declan, controlled at this point by the evil being. Swivel has put Declan back into the catatonic state he was in when Reese took care of him, and the time has come for Swivel to give Reese a bit more information about his gardening expertise. It isn't pleasant.

The nightmarish images that come from the creative team on this book never cease to impress. The “familiars” of Swivel mentioned earlier are downright disturbing as is the stuff that he pulls out of the pots in his nursery. The series continues to entertain at every turn, with some effective dark humor mixed with some truly horrific entities that stick with you a while after pouring through each issue. Tobin and Ferreyra make an amazing team and their work on this series makes the last one look like just a warm up exercise. It might be a bit late to jump in now as the next issue appears to be the close of the current arc, but you'd be a fool to not to check this out in one form or another and chase down the back issues.