With hindsight, a story about the exploration of the American West was always likely to leave some readers complaining - as one does in the letters page - "I don't know who to root for". Not, in general, the survivors who get to write the stories, as this latest instalment underlines. This is the most nightmarish volume of Manifest Destiny yet, after the ghastly end of volume 3 made it clear that there are no heroes in this comic, just protagonists. It's the first that reads like a horror comic,...

The deeper we travel with this band of dishonesty the more disturbing the looming shit storm becomes...onward to destiny...Manifest Destiny...

3.5 stars

I love this series, but this wasn't the greatest collection. It was rather confusingly plotted, jumping back and forth in time between the Lewis and Clark expedition and a previous, doomed expedition three years previously. Both encounter the one-eyed sasquatch, a skull of which was featured on President Thomas Jefferson's desk in a previous issue, and which seems to be one of the primary instigators for the new expedition. The sasquatch seem to be a largely peaceful race, though their size is q...

This is probably closer to 3.5 than 4. Art is still mostly gorgeous and was perhaps intentionally confusing in this issue. The story is told non-linearly and starts to fill in some of the backstory. It didn't hold together as well for me, however, as the earlier volumes. I will have to read this one again to really decide on the ultimate take on the subtext. Ends on a nice and somewhat unexpected cliffhanger, so definitely looking forward to the next volume.

Not quite as good as the previous volumes. I've been waiting for Sasquatches to show up in this book since it first began. It's just a natural fit with Lewis and Clark headed to the Pacific Northwest. Turns out they are kind of boring but taste great. Most of the book is set in the past showing what occurred in the previous mission. The story isn't nearly as compelling and kind of stupid. Our crew is basically dealing with the mistakes of the previous crew throughout this volume. The best page w...

Fascinating and engrossing. Their incredible travails get more incredible. This journey rocks. Did I mention sasquatch?

Following on from the sickening conclusion of the third volume, the fourth confirms it: this is not the weird adventure yarn for which it could initially be mistaken. It's a horror story about America's original sin.

First disappointing volume of the series. Sasquatch departs from the pioneers-vs-monsters formula that has worked so well and takes a hard turn toward the-horrors-of-colonization. It's a depressing and un-fun departure. And the choice to use a thick-lined pseudo-handwritten script for the extensive flashbacks was a hard-to-read fail. The sasquatches (view spoiler)[themselves, despite being the title of the volume, are largely incidental. Just peaceful, friendly creatures who get murdered and eat...

Manifest Destiny is a fantastic title that I can whole heartedly recommend. This chapter has some of my favorite elements of the title in it and things are progressing nicely and I already can’t wait to get my hands on the next volume.Lewis, Clark, and the gang have come upon the trail of the last man to crew to explore America and we see what happened to that crew which leads into the beginnings of Lewis and Clark’s journey.They encounter another monster but this time they have more stuff going...

It happens to every ongoing title sooner or later: the first crap book, and Sasquatch is Manifest Destiny’s first stinker! The volume alternates between Lewis and Clark’s expedition in the present, 1804, and the past, 1801, where we see what happened to the previous expedition out west which left only one survivor, Captain Helm. We spend most of the book with Helm, watching his descent into madness and his group slowly dying… and that’s it. Sasquatch is in dire need of a story! I feel like Helm’...

Four volumes in and I'm still digging this series. Interested to see where they go next.

Yet another impactful tale in this juggernaut of a series. 5 stars, would give give more if I could.

Not as good as the previous trades, but I feel this is building somewhere and where this goes may make this trade better seeing the payoff.Second reading: liked it better this time around

Lewis and Clark and their crew continue moving up the Missouri River, following where Captain Helm had gone. Their major encounter was with the Sasquatches which forced them to avoid land for a long time. This volume ends with the expedition setting up winter camp near the Mandan Indians after coming to a truce with the Teton Indians. Much of the volume covers Helm's ramblings about his trip west and back, laying the groundwork for what is to come.

This continues to be a wild and weird ride . . . and, it's getting even weirder (if that is even possible)This issue deals not only with Lewis and Clark's continuing bizarre adventures, but also has flashbacks to the story immediately preceding adventures. The flashback segment is super trippy and kind of hard to follow, but a decent addition to the story all the same.And, probably sounding like a broken record from my previous reviews in this series, but the art work is very good and fun to loo...

Better than the previous volume I though. Kind of seeing where this story is headed.

I read the first three volumes of Manifest Destiny back in 2017. While I remembered that the series was creative and interesting, the characters had gotten lost in the madness of my brain. This volume seemed to jump all over the place, and I don't remember the other volumes doing that. I could be wrong, but I think that I followed them easily enough. This volume was a different story. It kept jumping from the past to the present and I wasn't sure what the hell was going on. Some weird stuff happ...

Why Chris Dingess isn't a big name in comics right now I'll never know. Manifest Destiny is amazing and no he doesn't do it alone. The art by Matthew Roberts is breathtaking and sometimes disturbing. The inking, the colouring, the lettering.... this is a complete package.I didn't think Dingess and company could top volume three, but they did. This time around the explorers Lewis and Clark come across one eyed cyclops monsters and as their story unfolds another does too. This story a few years in...

This review can be found on my blog: https://graphicnovelty2.com/2018/06/2... (also included review for Volumes Two & Three)Guess what creatures we meet next? We start off with a lengthy look at Captain Helm’s 1801 mission and how his expedition wintered in the Pacific Northwest. He too had figured out that arches meant danger, so he and his crew build a cabin where they don’t see any arches. But a mysterious soldier from America’s distant past contacts him and helps him hunt Sasquatches for foo...