Hope’s Adventures Under Ground Part 2
Writer: David Hine
Artist: Jeremy Haun
Colorist: John Rauch
Letterer: Troy Peteri
Editor: Bryan Rountree, Betsy Gonia and Matt Hawkins
Publisher: Top Cow Productions
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $2.99
Format: FC
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
Rated: M/Mature
“ALONE IN THE WOODS”
Darkness bearer Jackie Estacado’s daughter Hope has wandered beyond the perimeter of her father’s vigilantly guarded estate, Erewon. When night falls in the woods and the supernatural begins to stir, Hope is more at home that ever before. Don’t miss this twisted fairytale that illustrates firsthand that Hope is truly her father’s daughter!
Take Alice in Wonderland and cross it with The Darkness and you have Hope’s Adventures Under Ground continuing from issue 112 into the first part of issue 113. After that, it is The Darkness through and through.
David Hine has done it again, crafted an issue that has the reader eagerly plowing through the issue wanting to know what’s going to happen in the next panel, on the next page, only to realize that the worst has occurred… they have reached the end of the issue and now must wait until 114 comes out to learn more.
As for the art, I am running out of ways to describe Jeremy Haun’s amazing delivery of the dark and twisted. But this time he’s added pixies (or was that a fairy) and a rabbit and managed to keep them cute, that is until it was time for them to stop being cute. His dark and twisted still tops the charts in my books as he manages to convey this without it becoming grotesque.
How do you create Team Sick and Twisted (occasionally Team Dark and Twisted)? Take one part Hine plus one part Haun add a dash of Rauch and a pinch of Peteri and you have Team Dark and Twisted.
So my question to you is this… are you reading The Darkness? Are you telling your friends that they should be reading The Darkness? If you answered no to either of these then answer me this… why not?
Final Score 9/10 for story and art, and most importantly for making me stop in surprise and say, “how did I not notice that before?” No I am not telling you what it was, let’s see if you have the same reaction when you read this issue. Hine did it again, caught me by surprise by the simplest of things!
Check out the preview pages available at Top Cow.
