A review by lacee
B.P.R.D.: Being Human by Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Ben Stenbeck, Karl Moline, Richard Corben, Andy Owens, Guy Davis, John Arcudi
3.0
For new readers and mignolaverse completionists note, this trade paperback collects some comics already available in other Mike Mignola collections. The comic "Being Human" is collected in Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places. "B.P.R.D: Casualties" is collected in the omnibus Abe Sapien: The Drowning and Other Stories, though this particular story can work with both the Abe Sapien omnibus and this collection since it's tied to Agent Liz Sherman's comic "The Dead Remembered". Though personally, I think "Casualties" works better with Abe's omnibus.
I'm going to be frank here, I don't see a new reader picking this up and enjoying it unless they've had prior exposure to some B.P.R.D. comics or characters, though the stories collected here are pretty good, quality wise. For my fellow completionists, or chronological timeline readers, you'll get only a couple new stories not collected elsewhere in this volume "The Dead Remembered" and Johann Kraus's origin comic. Keep that in mind before trying to track this collection down.
I'm going to be frank here, I don't see a new reader picking this up and enjoying it unless they've had prior exposure to some B.P.R.D. comics or characters, though the stories collected here are pretty good, quality wise. For my fellow completionists, or chronological timeline readers, you'll get only a couple new stories not collected elsewhere in this volume "The Dead Remembered" and Johann Kraus's origin comic. Keep that in mind before trying to track this collection down.