Celebrated independent cartoonist Craig Thompson, author of Top Shelf's bestselling Blankets, and Kev Walker, who Wizard Magazine picked as one of the budding new geniuses of the mainstream, join the Weird Tales lineup with their own unique takes on Mignola's acclaimed characters. Also this issue, Hellboy movie storyboard artist Simeon Wilkins teams with Buffy writers Tom Fassbender and Jim Pascoe for an old fashioned gangster story, and John Cassaday delivers the penultimate chapter to his oddball Lobster Johnson serial.
All of the stories in Hellboy Weird Tales #7 were extraordinary, but I was thrilled to read "Theatre of the Dead". This is the type of story that would have had George (Night of the Living Dead) Romero smiling. The zombie holding his head while firing a machine gun was very bizarre. When you have a mixture of gangsters and zombies in one story, you have a story that fires up the imagination of the reader. These zombies were more than . Hellboy had his hands full in this strange event. I could just imagine the music that would derive from a zombie orchestra. I will always love the investigations that the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense investigates. They are a combination of your classic X-Files mixed in with the real-life OSIR (Office of Scientific Investigation and Research). You never know what they might stumble onto next! Read Full Review
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