With this supernatural but altogether human tale, has the creative team successfully hit the right cords to bestow an emotional impact?  Read on to find out.

The official description from Image:

Joe Fitzgerald’s client is dead. The young woman he went searching for on her behalf is dead. And he’s not happy about it. Worse still, someone’s shaking the foundations of Heaven, in a move putting the spirit of his beloved Laura in jeopardy. Someone’s going to pay for it…even if that means walking into Hell itself.

There have been many properties that have touched upon the idea of an imperfect man being called to do work beyond his natural realm.  What makes this specific volume from Joe’s Comics work is that in the end we have a creative team that tries to add just enough wrinkles to the usually associated tropes to make their tale one that’s worth following.

J. Michael Straczynski has been around the block quite a few times, and at this point the seasoned author knows exactly what he’s going for in this brand new saga.  The journey of a former button man turning good over love is explored in great depth with this outing as the main plot takes a bit of back seat in order to give necessary time that allows some literary gaps to be filled in.  That’s not to say that a good deal fails to happen here, as a matter of fact just enough of the various cogs in the machine break through as they fight a rather sluggish pacel.

The moody artwork by Ben Templesmith evokes an appropriate level of dread that creates a slightly spooky atmosphere.  In short: the pencil work allows this complicated yarn to be somewhat inviting. But with that said there were plenty of visualizations that felt a bit off or, at the very least, rough around the edges.  But still the illustrator succeeds in complementing the key components of the jaunt.

Ten Grand #3 is a good comic that does enough to continue to sell the overall quality of the saga, as this issue earns a recommendation.

3.5/5