Fall of Cthulhu Vol. 3: The Gray Man

Arkham's Sheriff Raymond Dirk hunts for a killer called the Gray Man! Teaming the mysterious young woman Lucifer, the Sheriff and his unlikely ally search for the elusive Gray Man, and find themselves the hunted rather than the hunters. Can they stop the Gray Man in time or will the Cthulhu cultists have their way? Will the final showdown between the Gray Man and Lucifer over the fate of mankind consume us all? And what horrible price has the Sheriff paid to tip the balance in our favor? Humanity hangs in the balance in this third volume of the critically acclaimed ongoing series! Collecting issues 11-14.

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For the third, single-arc collection of the best-ever Lovecraftian comic, Nelson taps yet another artist, who adopts the embossed-looking figuration Jean Dzialowski employed in volume 1, The Fugue (2008), and carries it over into the garishly surreal Dreamlands, to which Arkham, Massachusetts, sheriff Raymond Dirk must repair en route to stopping a wave of spectacular murders. Killing the perp, a mysterious gray man, isn’t an option because he’s not really corporeal. Though Dirk looks slightly like a wander-in from King of the Hill, this gruesome tale otherwise suggests a very good episode of X-Files creator Chris Carter’s other great TV series, Millennium, though Dirk lacks Frank Black’s gift. --Ray Olson

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