Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #3" The Gift That is a Curse

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #3

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Rafael Albuquerque

COLORS: Dave McCaig

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

COVER: Rafael Albuquerque

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Rafael Albuquerque

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (July 2025)

Rated 18+

Huck created by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

Huck: Big Bad World is a new six-issue comic book miniseries created by writer Mark Millar and artist Rafael Albuquerque.  Published by Dark Horse Comics, it is a sequel to the 2015-16 miniseries, Huck.  Both series focus on Huck, an autistic man with extraordinary powers who tries to do one good deed every day.  Colorist Dave McCaig and letterer Clem Robins complete the creative team. 

In Huck Big Bad World, Huck, his mother, Anna Polina Marianna Kozar, and the mysterious Dr. Jack Harper are on a road trip with the goal of finding Harper's lost love, Sophia.  The trio also wants to find the other secret super-humans who have been hiding around the world.  But why are they in hiding, and what are they afraid of?

Huck: Big Bad World #3 opens as Huck, Anna, and Jack try to track a young woman who literally cannot be tracked because she can see what is happening for one hundred miles.  Among the other super-people they meet is a young woman who can bring pets that died before their time back to life.  But there is one meeting with a super-person that will change everything.

THE LOWDOWN:  This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics.  The latest received is Huck: Big Bad World #3.

With this second Huck series, Mark Millar picks up where he left off in the original and also veers into darker territory that delves into the mysteries of other super-humans and their really creepy origins.  While this third issue does what the second issue did – offer twists and turns, it also offers hope to those seemingly made hopeless by what they can do with their super powers.  Miller shows a human side to what can be a heartbreaking angle of things beyond the natural.

The storytelling by artist Rafael Albuquerque, by turns dark and hopeful, is more hopeful in this third issue.  Albuquerque made me feel the emotions of the characters in this chapter more than simply feel the exhilaration of the supernatural and of conflict.  Dave McCaig's coloring continues to be outstanding at striking a balance between the light and the dark that finds humor and pathos in this offbeat series.  As always, the lettering by Clem Robins establishes moods and then embellishes those moods to the best affect.

The first issue of Huck: Big Bad Day did not disappoint, and since then, the series has paid off on its promise of being something extraordinary.  Dear readers, run to the store for Huck: Big Bad World.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of the first Huck series will want to try Huck: Big Bad World.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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