Huck Big Bad World 3 review – Dark Horse Comics 7/23/25

Huck Big Bad World 3 is such a refreshing uplifting read. With so much of the comic landscape featuring heroes trying to knock each other out and serial killers are now joining hero teams, it’s nice to read a comic where the hero actually acts the part. And his adventures are never boring because he’s such a “dull” good-natured character.

With Huck Big Bad World 3, writer Mark Millar again shows he’s wholly capable of writing a wholesome, innocent character in Huck as easily as a deplorable, heinous character like Nemesis. It’s a fun dichotomy as Millar writes both characters wonderfully. It probably couldn’t end well, but with big crossovers on the big screen and in comics featuring a certain merc with a mouth, Millar could have a pretty inspired series matching Huck and Nemesis up.

For Huck Big Bad World 3, Huck, Ana and Jack are continuing their search for Sophia, the mysterious hero who saved Jack’s life decades ago. Jack has become borderline obsessed with finding her as he thought the two had a genuine connection.

Before Huck can track down Sophia, he encounters other superpowered individuals including a woman who can see things playing out from 100 miles away, a man who communicates with fish and a woman who can raise animals from the dead. There’s a real sense of wonder and charm in Big Bad World 3. Millar has captured a lot of that initial buzz NBC’s Heroes enjoyed where none of the characters set out to be a hero so much as simply navigating their powers.

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Artist Rafael Albuquerque is such an outstanding storyteller, which is essential for Huck as it’s not a traditional superhero story. The story doesn’t have a bunch of maniacal, crazed villains. It’s much more about regular people who have received an extraordinary power and trying to go on living a regular life in spite of their special abilities.

The emotions Albuquerque brings out of the characters sells so much of the disappointment, fear, anxiety that actually having powers would likely create. Colorist Dave McCaig uses a warm color palette to reflect a kindler, gentler Golden Age of comic book storytelling while letterer Clem Robins keeps the dialogue clean and very easy to follow.

This issue ends with a strong cliffhanger, marking the ideal halfway point of this mini-series as it leaves the creative team with plenty of directions to go in the next half.

Huck Big Bad World 3 is so good because it harkens back to a more inspiring time in comic books before every writer tried to mirror the ugliness found in the real world. This is an aspirational title that avoids coming off too corny and dull. We need more comics like Huck and Big Bad World 3 was another example of why it’s such a compelling read.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Photo Credit: Dark Horse Comics

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