In which Christine Spar and Brian Li Sung inherit the mantle of Grendel. Last time we covered Matt Wagner’s antihero Grendel, we did a chronological readthrough of the Hunter Rose stories, starting with material from the mid-1980s collected as Devil By the Deed and then skipping ahead to miniseries from 1998, 2002, and 2007. Now we’re going back to 1986 (and the future…which is probably our present…but looks like the past…with flying cars) to read the first actual Grendel ongoing series from Comico (although we’ll be looking at a two-issue miniseries from 1999 first). Sound confusing? Dark Horse’s omibuses make it easy, trust us! In these stories, we examine the seduction of violence and how quickly it can spiral out of control, even with the best of intentions. Can anybody come into contact with Grendel and survive? (Maybe, if you’re a cop with a cybernetic eye.)

Discussed in this episode: Grendel: Devil Child #1-2, Grendel #1-19 (aka Devil’s Legacy, The Devil Inside, and Devil Tales), collected as Grendel Omnibus Volume 2: Legacy from Dark Horse Comics

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