Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #5" Brings the Bad Guys Out

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #5 (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. (October 2025); October 1, 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.  Now, Huck is about to find out why so many of them were smart to be in hiding.

Huck: Big Bad World #5 introduces the Lucas Trust, an organization that has been searching out people with super powers and neutralizing them for over 20 years.  Now, the organization's “Witch Finders” are on a killing spree.  So many people with these special powers were in hiding because they were afraid of being found.

Huck has brought them into the open, so he has endangered himself and them.  But has Huck unwittingly revealed a powerful new possessor of these super powers?

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 #5.

It should be no surprise that I am telling you again, dear readers, that a Mark Millar comic book is full of breathtaking surprises... because Huck II #5 is.  This issue is one of those penultimate comic book issues that makes returning one more time a must for comic book readers.

The storytelling by artist Rafael Albuquerque, by turns dark and hopeful, offers a balance of raw emotion and bracing violence.  With Dave McCaig's coloring Albuquerque's art and storytelling sings out from places of both despair and hope.  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 here for 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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