PARA #4 & #5 32 pages, full color, $2.95/$4.60CAN Penny Farthing Press www.pfpress.com Creator/Script - Stuart Moore Pencils - Pablo Villalobos & Claude St. Aubin Inks - Mostafa Moussa & James Taylor Colors - Mike Garcia Letters - Richard Starkings Painted cover - Stephan Martiniere

This is a series that grows on you. The first issue is interesting enough and then you get into the second and things start happening and more mysteries present themselves. So on to number three and the middle of the story builds the intensity and suspense so you are hooked. Reading issues 4 & 5 together was a good way to move to the approaching climax with all the elements now in play.

Sara Erie has managed to talk her way onto a team going into a super collider that was supposedly flooded in radiation 19 years ago killing everyone in it, including her father. What they find is no trace of radiation but a mysterious message in blood on the walls. They soon find that the unit had been activated prematurely back then opening a portal to another world or dimension. The Paras are the beings from the other side who destroy the original workers. Sara and her mentor are seeking answers to it all but along with the team is a female FBI agent and her para-normal expert who have their own agenda. There are also robots roaming the tunnels, and evidently they are controlled, but for what?

These episodes follow Sara as she passes into the Para world and learns what happened years ago. Doctor Anderson, still mourning the other member of their crew that was killed earlier, comes upon the real danger of the collider and why it must be stopped. Too late does the FBI agent find that her plan to destroy the collider and anyone who knows the truth will not work out because something else is in full control and unless they can shut it down it could well mean the end of the Earth and even the universe!

That may seem far fetched plot but it is rooted in science relating to the Big Bang theory. The plot unfolds and gets more clear with each chapter. Like all the comics from Penny Farthing Press you can expect the best production values in every aspect. The art is flawless page to page. By the end of #5 we are in a race to stop the destruction of all there is and find ourselves uneasy knowing we have to wait for the final chapter. They got me right where they want me!

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