4 out of 5

What makes a book a one-shot, and what makes it a series?  I feel like I have to ask this with LoJo every now and then, because his stories are so fun that when they’re boiled down to an issue you can’t help but want more.  So I’ll go ahead and just offer up that main criticism here: that an evil preacher using a zombie horde to feed on the homeless – with fun ties to previous LoJo stories – is too good of an idea to resolve in 20-something pages.  And I’ve dug Peter Snejbjerg, but his art occasionally looks stiff to me; in ‘The Forgotten Man,’ notes of Kelly Jones or Eric Powell peek up here and there, and Snej has never looked better.  Every page directs the eye excitingly, and when the action heats up, every inch of every panel is screaming for attention, no little thanks to Dave Stewart’s I’m-always-good-but-I’m-great-when-the-art-merits-it coloring.

I’m itching to give this five stars.  But nay, I remain steadfast in protest: give us longer Lobster Johnson series, villains!