Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #4" Offers No Rest for the Weary

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #4 (OF 6)

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. (August 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 #4 opens in Montana, where Jack Harper is reunited with his Sophia who is living in hiding with her grandson, Kevin, who cannot control his powers.  And Kevin's powers can be quite deadly.  Huck and Anna say goodbye and return home to a painful reunion.  Can Anna fix this as sinister forces gather around them?

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 #4.

In both Huck series, writer Mark Millar has offered a narrative that is both charming and poignant, which is not something that genre comic books do very well.  However, this forth issue of the second series opens with the quote, “We live out here so Kevin doesn't kill anyone.”  And we're off on an adventure full of the shocks and surprises the kind at which Millar is golden.

The storytelling by artist Rafael Albuquerque, by turns dark and hopeful, is a mixture of both in unnerving ways.  Albuquerque continues to make readers feel the emotions of the characters in this chapter, as he draws them into a spider's web of shock and awe.  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.

Huck: Big Bad Day is undeniably a superb series.  It is a great work on the way to an incredible conclusion.  I'm totally surprised at how good it is, so, dear readers, hop to it.

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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