Everything starts to fall down for BPRD. First Johann leads the expedition to Chicago to figure out what happened with the team that went incommunicado while investigating strange old house (two issues back). Moment they move on, they start dying off like flies and creepy mist starts mutating everything around them.

Story is what you might call standard zombie survival story (small kids, protection instinct, dont worry everything is going to be OKkkkkkkaghhhhhh) - if we weren't suffocated with the similar stories (Walking Dead, when will you end :)) this one would be interesting. But truly in how many different ways can you tell story of people going through cities destroyed by monsters and fighting off mutations or monsters (maybe both?:))

Parallel to this, second BPRD troop is sent to Russia to assist Russian's version of BPRD to contain Varvara (little child monster). I am still not sure was the ending OK or catastrophe. Hopefully next volume will shed more light.

Of other events, Fenix must be what people imagine to be independent teenager but what I would call somebody in dire need of couple of days hard disciplining. I truly do not know how people tolerate her constant mood swings and sewer personality ... I do not know. Maybe she develops into something worthy at the end, although I ... very doubt much doubt it.

Grim volume, but keeps me hooked to see where it goes from here. ( )

While this collection felt (again) like a bunch of place-holder stories, like the Minolions are treading water while they figure out where to go from the kaiju parade this series is becoming, it still had some good bits. I love Iosif and how, as we learn here, he managed to trap Varvara in a bell jar. And the little boy in Illinois was touching. Otherwise, though, meh. ( )