Collector

The fourth volume of “The Stuff of Legend” brand subtitled “The Toy Collector,” checks in with a number of the toys, the Boogeyman and the boy whose toys this series centers around. Set in an otherworldly realm where lost toys go (and in some cases are taken to) the first issue of this volume is as strong and wonderful as every single one of the previous issues. Like the entirety of the series to this point, “The Stuff of Legend” is square in format, like “Mouse Guard.” This gives “The Toy Collector” a cozy, intimate feeling. Captured on pages roughly the size of a kids’ book, the imagery drawn by Charles Paul Wilson III, with coloring a production assists from Jon Conkling and Michael DeVito, ranges from cave paintings intended to be rendered by a toy monkey to expressively, intricate detail of a collection of animals in a forest setting with a bed of leaves on the forest floor as more leaves plummet or float to join the padding. The issue is rendered in augmented sepia tones, helpi