Picking right back up where we left off last week, our foursome this time around includes the last two issues of Robert Sergel’s Bald Knobber, as well as two more recent comics by our man of the hour, Joe Bonaparte and September 12th And Other Stories.

The major revelation that came at the tail end of the previous issue gives rise to a secret and uneasy truce between Cole and the individual who burned down his mother’s home in Bald Knobber #5 (how’s that for assiduously avoiding anything that could be labeled a “spoiler”?), but the underlying tension between our troubled (and troubling) protagonist and the author of his sorrows (some of ’em, at any rate) ends up momentarily usurped from the foreground thanks to the return of a former nemesis out for his pound of flesh. I remarked in my previous Round-Up column that the…