Review 'Sword of Hyperborea # 3'- The Deep Dive

Sword of Hyperborea #3 Writer: Mike Mignola, Rob Williams Artist: Laurence Campbell Letterer: Clem Robins Colorist: Quinton Winter, Dave Stewart Cover Artist: Laurence Campbell

This is a four issue series following the sword that will ultimately be Hellboy’s. We started a very long time ago, beginning in prehistoric times with Gall Dennar; then going forward to the first World War and Graf Ling de Gotham.

And now we are on the verge of the second World War with a new character: a diver by the last name of Olssen. He is an expert in his field, asked by the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra to retrieve a mysterious artifact from a crashed zeppelin in the English Channel.

Of course, the war is looming, and soon the diver will find himself stranded in the deep. Which makes it a wonderful issue, silent and eerie as a space drama, where -without a sound- he will find himself fighting alongside supernatural forces, only to emerge far away and a long time later, on an island shore…