Do they pull it off? Do Hine and Kane bring Bulletproof Coffin to the conclusion it deserves? No. Do they bring it to a satisfying conclusion? Definitely. Does this satisfying conclusion suggest a depth greater than what it actually contains? Yes. It’s very slick. The issue’s a great example of why revelations have to be…

Hine and Kane seem to be aware they’ve set themselves up for a needing a big, satisfying conclusion… not sure if that awareness makes it more likely or less. Once again, the layers start folding in on themselves, making it very hard to understand exactly what—if there is a “real” timeline—is going on. Some of…

And they keep going. Hine and Kane add yet another layer or two to the book, making it nearly impossible to figure things out with maybe charting it. With only two issues left now, I’m hoping they can pull off a good conclusion. The way they deal with cliffhangers—the series has them now—is nice. It…

Okay, so Hine and Kane up the ante a little here. This issue takes the meta-fiction aspect of the comic—where the protagonist interacts with the idea of these comic book creators who share their names with the creators of Bulletproof Coffin—to the next level. Not only is the protagonist, in the “real world,” dealing with…

The second issue doesn’t deal with the first’s soft cliffhanger, so I imagine Hine and Kane have something else planned in regards to the protagonist’s family. I’m just hoping they don’t go Truman Show. This issue has a flashback comic of a crime series, sort of a proto-Punisher. Oddly, even though the character’s a ghost…

Bulletproof Coffin is strange. Hine and Kane set it up as a thriller, possibly a superhero book, definitely with some horror and sci-fi elements. It also ends with the implied scene the protagonist’s sons are going to be mask-wearing psychopaths. There’s also the meta-fiction aspect—Hine and Kane are off-panel characters in the story, they produced…