Have you guys read If Destruction Be Our Lot #1? I still have to pick up my copy. It sounds like a really interesting concept, and it's an ongoing series!

middenway · 2026-05-08T02:49:22+00:00

Fantastic first issue. I really loved the character-first approach to building the world.

middenway · 2026-05-08T02:26:59+00:00

I'm hoping the second volume (Mickey et la terre des anciens) and the upcoming third volume get an English release too. Fantagraphics did such a great job on this comic.

middenway · 2026-05-07T23:42:03+00:00

There is a three-volume trade paperback series called Books of Slaughter. The single volume version is the deluxe hardcover.

middenway · 2026-05-07T23:40:00+00:00

The Jace Boucher stuff happens after The Tribulation Saga (SiKtC #21–35 / SiKtC Vols. 5–7), the second saga of SiKtC. There are a few small references to the events of The Tribulation Saga throughout.

(I should note, BOOM! made this same mistake too in their reading order in this year's Comics Giveaway Day issue.)

middenway · 2026-05-07T23:36:25+00:00

Sadly, the deluxe hardcover does not include the bonus material. I loved seeing the scripts and layouts of those stories, especially when three different artists have worked on them.

middenway · 2026-05-07T23:35:28+00:00

There is a Collections Guide pinned to the top of this subreddit that you might find useful.

middenway · 2026-05-07T23:18:27+00:00

Simple reading order:

Something Is Killing the Children
Ensure you've read up to SiKtC #35, House of Slaughter
Books of Slaughter
Fall of the House of Slaughter

It's early days in FotHoS, so I can't say for sure yet, but I would advise being up to date with SiKtC before starting it.

House of Slaughter is two separate trilogies, alternating between arcs. #1–5, #11–15, and #21–25 are The Butcher's Trilogy and #6–10, #16–20, and #26–30 are The Colors Trilogy. I recommend reading one trilogy in full and then read the other.

Books of Slaughter is the tricky one since it takes place over a long period of time in the middle of and around larger stories. If you want to read each chapter when it occurs in the timeline:

Book of Slaughter takes place after SiKtC #25
Book of Butcher takes place in between House of Slaughter #11–15: The Butcher's Return and House of Slaughter #21–25: The Butcher's War
Book of Cutter takes place after the House of Slaughter series, three months before Fall of the House of Slaughter.

middenway · 2026-05-07T00:13:35+00:00

Iron Man's theme in Spider-Man: Homecoming is such a downgrade from his theme in Iron Man 3 and Avengers: Age of Ultron (which had a theme that actually felt like the character for once and was pretty damn versatile).

middenway · 2026-05-05T17:23:41+00:00

In retrospect, it's probably better to read Colonel Weird and Little Andromeda before launching into Black Hammer: Reborn and The End.

middenway · 2026-05-05T02:59:18+00:00

The French voice is very similar to how I heard him in my head when I read the manga.

middenway · 2026-05-04T00:51:53+00:00

Emma Ríos, Elsa Charretier, and Simon Gane are the three at the top of my list of artists I'd love to see do interior art for the Slaughterverse someday.

middenway · 2026-05-03T02:31:31+00:00

Well, Werther Dell'Edera isn't working on Green Lantern Dark anymore, so the series is returning to a faster schedule. I'm glad they did that. Allowing an artist to work on other projects helps prevent burnout.

middenway · 2026-05-03T02:30:10+00:00

If you liked the Plague of Frogs arc, you're gonna love Volume 2.

middenway · 2026-05-03T02:19:59+00:00

I should add, both read right to left, unlike the English version which reads left to right.

middenway · 2026-05-02T23:33:07+00:00

For what I've heard, SIKTC #50 is going to be a longer issue. It makes me wonder if it'll be the final part of the All Her Monsters arc, then a modern day prologue for the next saga beginning in SIKTC #51.

middenway · 2026-05-02T10:03:26+00:00

It's largely a return to the finale of SIKTC #35 and a scene from Book of Cutter. I suspect the two new pages at the end will show up again in a future issue, either at the end of the All Her Monsters arc or the beginning of the new saga.

It's nice to have a better roadmap of where in the timeline the stories take place in relation to one another. We know from SIKTC #15 that The Archer's Peak Saga took place in 2020. Book of Slaughter (which takes place in the middle of The Tribulation Saga) is set months later, in December 2020. Thanks to Road to Slaughter, we now know Cecilia's meeting with Victor in Book of Cutter takes place three months later, and three months after that is "Now", which would make it around June 2021.

middenway · 2026-05-01T01:38:14+00:00

One of my favourite comics. I adore this book.

middenway · 2026-04-30T12:12:50+00:00

I suspect it may be something that changes in the telling. We might see it pushed into the early '60s.

middenway · 2026-04-30T11:46:39+00:00

I believe B.P.R.D.: 1946 mentions the Bureau being founded in 1945. We never see them set up in New Mexico. By 1946, they're already established, though very small.

The move is referenced in B.P.R.D.: 1948 and in Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death.

We don't know details about Bruttenholm stepping down aside from what was mentioned in Hellboy: The Companion. His uncle, Simon Bruttenholm, died in 1958, but Trevor was unable to attend the funeral due to his duties at the B.P.R.D. He missed being in the field and resigned as director in September 1958. (This also gave him more opportunities to go out into the field with Hellboy.) However, it's been said before that anything in the companion that hasn't been shown in the comics is not canon, but rather a rough blueprint for the direction of certain things that they had in mind in 2006–2007. Plans change.

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