The Returning

A moody, four-issue miniseries from Boom! Studios (2014), The Returning follows a man who discovers that the memories of a dead stranger have been implanted in his mind, forcing him to unravel a conspiracy involving identity theft and resurrection. Created by writer Jason Starr and artist Andrea Mutti, this taut, noir-inflected thriller explores the psychological and ethical fallout of tampering with life and death. Its compact, self-contained story makes it a sharp, unsettling entry in Boom!’s early-2010s catalog of genre experiments.