It's hard to conjure up consistent adjectives for the Autumnlands series; Ben Dewey, Jordie Bellaire, John Roshell, Jimmy Betancourt, and that Kurt Busiek fellow just keep churning out one of the best books on the shelves without any semblance of wavering in quality. And this latest issue? ****ing fantastic as ****.

Leoroyd and Dusty have encountered the missing Craglanders, and it isn't pretty: the poor goats have somehow been fused with various assorted wildlife through raw, unfiltered magic in the area - a sickness spreading and mutating life into a giant, crazed beast.

Dirty Aelbert, one of the last Craglanders, is confronted by the various pieces of the village he knew in the monster, and he shirks off that horror while fighting alongside Leoroyd and Dustry as they try to figure out how to separate all the life twisted together by this corrupt magic.