This mini-series just continues to be more and more poetic. Seriously the afterlife that Jen Van Metter and Valiant have come up with is just incredible. At times it’s intriguing and magical; other times its average and common looking, but then the rest of the time it’s scary. It’s frightening really and yet our main character is so far gone from her own life that she’s willing to throw it all away to find her husband.

After a decent start that reminded me a lot IDW’s old Silent Hill comic books, The Evil Within takes an unfortunate turn. It’s not a bad issue, but it is pretty much everything you’d expect to happen after the first issue. There are some intense scenes, but a lot of the, “holy shit what’s going on?” has been lost.

By now it should be obvious as to what’s happening in the latest arc of The Woods, in which writer James Tynion and artist Michael Dialynas are taking individual characters and looking at who they were before arriving on the alien moon. In doing so they change the character before our eyes and it’s such a great storytelling device.

Even after a short break the best thing about The Mercenary Sea is that it’s consistent. It returns as if it never left and really moves the story into new territory. At the end of the last arc our Captain Jack was given a gift that may have turned out to be a the key to finding Koji Ra. Koji Ra being the mythical island that he’s collected stories on. The issue actually walks us through them and we get the sense of just how dedicated Jack is to finding this island and the supposed payday it would offer.