We shouldn't let a month of horror comics go by without a Vertigo book, should we? And yet it's another limited series I have three of the four issues of, except that sting is lessened for an anthology title. From 2000, Strange Adventures #3, cover by Edvin Biukovic.
Joe R. Lansdale and Richard Corben open with "The Split," in which a clock-loving worksman in the bell tower is nearly struck by lightning, which splits off his shadow, which aims to fulfill a repressed desire. Doselle Young writes and Pat McEown draws "Driving Miss 134," a torrid confessional break-up postcard from a guy stricken by a new girl, in multiple senses of the word. But the best of this issue is "Metal Fatigue," written by Mark Schultz, art by John Totleben. An obsessed geologist leads an expedition of three robots to previously unknown depths of the earth. Treasures and danger await the geologist...but what do the robots want, if you asked them?
We saw the first issue of this series years back, but I've still never seen the fourth. Something to keep an eye out for.
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