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  • Dept. H #4



    Dept. H #4
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: July 20th, 2016.
    Written by: Matt Kindt
    Illustrated by: Matt Kindt, Sharlene Kindt
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    Picking up directly where issue #3 left off, Dept. H #4 begins with Mia talking to the rest of the crew - Raj, her brother, is still out there and she aims to fix that whether they like it or not. They think he's dead, she does not. He'll run out of air soon, the base is falling apart around them - it's becoming a matter of self-preservation.

    Eventually, under some duress, it's decided that Mia and two others will head back out towards where the main generator is, look for Raj, and maybe fix the generator too, Roger insists on it and after we witness a flashback to his past, we understand why.

    As the submarine heads back into the depths - Aaron and Mia inside with Q at the controls - they wonder how all the bone carcasses they see on the ocean floor build up. There are lots of bones, but no sign of Raj. Q says he's dead. He pilots the sub back towards the cave. The original generator is there, a saline powered machine, and there's limited air inside. They quickly head inside to do what they can do and find Raj's helmet but no sign of the man himself. Mia's father had explored the caves but left little documentation to go off of.

    And then she hears a voice from inside… 'kill me…. trying to kill me.'

    A beautiful mix of bizarre science, rich and atmospheric tension and sometimes very chilling character development, this fourth issue of Dept. H hits all the right notes on all the right pages. We get enough additional bits and pieces of background information on a few key characters to keep that aspect of the storyline interesting and we see some flat out bizarre concepts brought to vivid life thanks to Kindt's fantastic artistic stylings. It's another beautiful entry in a series that continues to be a treat for the mind and for the eyes. There's plenty of detail in the pencil work to take in while the water colors give all of this a very distinct and appealing color scheme - it jives in a way that few other comics can, there's a very obvious sense of flow to pretty much every panel.

    And the story keeps getting more bizarre, more engaging. It's dark, metaphorically and literally, but this darkness adds to the sense of mystery that runs throughout the core. This is one of those books where it hurts to hit the last page - you don't want it to end! As with the other three issues so far, there are some keen sketchbook pages here too, as well as a really interesting letters column well worth reading. Matt and Sharlene Kindt are really onto something with Dept. H - don't let this title pass you by.






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