The final volume opens with the gang (which now includes the Sex Police) trying to figure out what to do about their mutual enemy Badal, and the huge BankCorp he leads. Matt Fraction, writer Chip Zdarsky, artist It makes for an exciting read–with story and art just as good as the creators’ reputations–and is arguably the best of the Hill House comics so far.
So let’s just say that it is full of surprise shocks, with stakes far larger than the salvage crew’s survival. Hill says he meant to evoke ’80s horror films like John Carpenter’s The Thing (signaled by the subtle naming of the salvage crew), and the finale delves into Lovecraft territory as well. When they arrive they discover that the ship’s crew is not exactly dead…but saying more than that would quickly go into spoiler territory. A salvage team headed up by the Carpenter Brothers (accompanied by a scientist and an officer of the corporation which owned the vessel), cross into Russian waters to recover the ship and the ship’s dead. After a massive tsunami, a ghost ship begins broadcasting a distress signal from an atoll in the Bering Strait–after being lost for forty years. Hill returns to the writer’s chair for this Hill House miniseries, which he describes as “the last of the first wave Hill House books.” The all-star art team includes veterans Stuart Immonen and Dave Stewart, so at the very least a good-looking comic is guaranteed. Joe Hill, writer Stuart Immonen, artist Dave Stewart, colorist
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