Twenty-four pages of knockdown, drag-out fighting amongst the orneriest of critter--that’s issue four of Fire and Stone. An Engineer accelerated Elden fights against a Predator. An accelerated Predator fights an accelerated Francis.

In this concluding chapter of the Everspring saga, Gobo, Red, and the Fraggles contend with the mound of garbage blocking the Everspring.

The one-shot special featuring the comedic sidekick to Evil Ernie breaks down into two separate stories that look backwards and forwards. The first, “What Ever Happened to Richard Smiley” supplies an origin for the demonic lapel rider.

In the last issue, Ash got blasted into space while chasing a possessed astronomer. Artemis Vrill, the stargazer, uploaded the Necronomicon’s contents into the space stations computers creating a technologically based Evil Dead.

Robert Venditti officially declared war on the other armor-wearing hero, Iron Man, with this issue. His first volley of shots fired came from the satirical equivalent of an F-22 Raptor: efficient, brutal, and right on target.

Shayla and her grandmother, Mother Wolf, continue on the revenge quest against the monsters that murdered their family. These fiends, “The Overseer,” “The Clown,” “The Cowboy,” and “the Man Who Walks” personify the vices that mortally affect the lower classes.

The twins, Minette and Mallory, are prisoners aboard a military cargo transport plane. They call upon Battra to come to their rescue.

We open on a panel showing Destoroyah in the water as steam plumes rise from the monster’s body.

Galgo, now tethered to the Predator, finds himself back on the moon where he stranded some of his crewmates.

I want to scream every time I read an issue of Grimm Tales of Terror but not from the horror between the covers of this comic. No, I want to cry out because each issue contains a great premise that gets buried in a half-assed attempt to create a sexually titillating wraparound narrative that implodes the progress of the monster-of-the-month arc.

The well-handled Ash Gets Hitched miniseries provided a great dose of fun and action into the otherwise weak monthly offering. With Steve Niles and crew stepping back to allow Cullen Bunn a turn at writing the chainsaw handed chronologically displaced anti-hero, a new turn begins for Ash and the Army of the Dead.

On the cover readers will find an Engineer tainted Predator covered in his own glowing blood raising a fist to punch a Xenomorph. The rest of the book is a direct continuation of the action portrayed so well on the cover.

Lucy and crew investigate a huge crater unearthed in Brazil. From it are taken glowing rocks that turn out to be something sinister. When Megaguirus spawn emerge from the forests, Lucy and her friends are forced to flee.