The intrigue starts, the backstabbing is revealed... or is it?

Now we're finally getting somewhere. ( )

Oh! My new library has all the newer Black Hammer books that my old one didn't. Time for a week-long project of catch-up.

When last I saw the mopey heroes of the Black Hammer universe, they were moping around a farm being mopey. Despite their best mopey efforts to remain mopey, the secret of the farm is at last revealed and the status quo gets status broke. However will they mope now?

Along the way we get a pastiche within the pastiche as one character takes a trip into DC's old Vertigo imprint to meet some slightly askew versions of John Constantine and the Endless and also, according to the end notes, The Ramones, though I did not recognize them as such in the story.

This was borderline 2-stars for me, but I'm relieved that some progress has finally been made and am actually curious about the next book. ( )

Jeff Lemire y Dean Ormston dan, con este tercer volumen de la serie, inicio a La edad sombría con una misión clara: resolver el misterio que lleva diez años agitando las cabezas de los seis exsuperhéroes que, tras salvar Spiral City de la destrucción, desaparecieron y cayeron en el olvido. Para la mayoría, se habían convertido en leyendas urbanas, pero no para Lucy Weber, la hija de Martillo Negro. Tras encontrar la granja, Lucy Weber se ha convertido en la nueva Martillo Negro y en el justo momento en que está a punto de revelar a nuestros héroes cómo acabaron atrapados en la granja y cómo huir de ella, desaparece. Junto a ella, también se esfuma la esperanza de salir de la granja.

La nueva Martillo Negro se ve atrapada en un mundo horrible lleno de dueños de bar zombis, dioses bizarros, humanos antropomórficos, héroes absurdistas y muchas más rarezas, un mundo loco del que no hay salida. Sin embargo, Lucy Weber está dispuesta a volver, y las vidas de Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Barbalien, el Coronel Weird, Talky-Walky y Madame Libélula no serán las mismas. El creador de la trilogía Essex County (Astiberri, 2008-2010) y guionista de la serie Descender (Astiberri, 2016-2019) continúa profundizando así en ese proceso de deconstrucción del superhéroe, lleno de épica y melancolía a partes iguales, que es Black Hammer, indagando en el pasado y las motivaciones de los protagonistas de esta historia.

https://shawjonathan.com/2020/02/24/jeff-lemire-and-others-black-hammer-vols-3-4... ( )

More amazingness!!! I LOVE the retro feel, the story was great, the characters are great. The only thing I don't like is that all the male characters look the same and all the female characters look the same. All the men have long rectangular faces with the same eyes, all the women have round faces with the same eyes and pouty lips. It's distracting and at times confusing, because I can't tell who's who. It seems like it might have been brought up during the creation of the comic. It's so obvious that I almost thought it was "a trick", like in the end all the women were going to be revealed to be the same person and then the men too. ( )