I am just as surprised as you are to learn that Fringe comics are good.
I would say that this 6 issue arc is actually more fun than many of the episodes.
It is, at heart, a prequel, with a young Walter Bishop meeting and working with a young William Bell. (As this was all done before the casting coup, the Comics’ Bell looks nothing like Leonard Nimoy – nor is he the appropriate age, but that’s okay.)
You get to watch Bish & Belly do all sorts of wacky stuff in their Harvard lab – like go back in time to fight Hitler!!!
Each issue also comes with a smaller, tag story that is just a little bit of “Pattern” spookiness.
Issue 6 is the only one set “now” and its last panel is Agent Dunham knocking on Bishop’s hospital door. Fun stuff.
