An evil Geomancer has torn the world asunder. The dark puppet master pulling the strings has been unmasked. And the Valiant Universe as we know it is being torn apart. The end is here!

I could praise the writing and artwork in this final issue, but I’ve been doing that all series long, and I feel I may be beating a dead horse by doing that – that being said, though, Robert Vendetti has written the most brilliantly suited final chapter to this arc that you could hope for, and between Robert Gill an Doug Braithwaite, the art is all I could have hoped for. I honestly could talk about both the writing and art work so much more (they’re both fantastic, and have been over the entire series), but to do so I would stray dangerously close to the spoiler territory that I want to avoid.

Because of that the review of Book Of Death #4 as a comic will probably be shorter than most other reviews that I’ve written lately.

The finale to Valiant‘s four part summer brings the arc to a close nicely; if you haven’t red this series, then either pick up the collected edition when it’s released, or the four single issues if you can find them – although be aware that if you do want to read Wrath Of The Eternal Warrior without reading this series there may be the odd spoiler for Book Of Death contained within Wrath; and if you do skip Book Of Death then you’ll miss out on the best event comic from any publisher from 2015, which would be a shame.

The main Book Of Death series was fantastic, and I’m saying that as somebody who knew relatively little about Valiant‘s characters (although full disclosure, I always like the idea of The Eternal Warrior, so with this series focusing on him more than the other major Valiant characters probably explains my enthusiasm for the series). The four tie in comics easilly available have, for the most part, also been very good – the one comic I wasn’t a huge fan of was because of my lack of familiarity with the characters involved (Book Of Death: Fall Of Harbinger). Valiant promised a tale for the ages, and they have delivered with the main series.

Book Of Death #4 is a great way to bring a close to an event that took me by surprise with the first issue (I never expected to enjoy it as much as I did), and the consistent quality of both the writing and art never let up from that opening salvo.

Simply put, this is a story you must read.

Story: Robert Venditti Art: Robert Gill with Doug Braithwaite
Story: 10 Art: 9.5 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Buy

Valiant provided Graphic Policy a FREE copy for review