“Uri Tupka and the Gods” is a cold, dark, and magnificent trek through Mike Mignola’s Lands Unknown

When Mike Mignola first introduced us to his Lands Unknown in Bowling With Corpses, it felt like creaking open a dusty tome of ancient folktales. Odd, eerie, and sometimes humorous stories from a lost world. His follow-up, Uri Tupka and the Gods, yanks you in without mercy into something far stranger, darker, and more complex.

The book, drawn by Mignola …