This is a series of stories that are not really connected. From thwarting Martian invasions to Abraham Lincoln commissioning a special agent, these stories are weird, and darkly humourous.I picked this book up on the recommendation of one of the guys at The Beguiling.I finished it because the hum...
The Amazing Screw-On Head is absurd, absurd in the most wonderful essence of the word. This is a project that you can tell Mike Mignola was having fun with. Something to play with, to play with and see what might happen. This book includes some extra drawings, but the fantastic addition is the ...
I'd read the single-issue comic before and always wanted more. This collection of short stories by Mignola (and special-guest story conceived by his daughter) rounds out the experience in satisfying ways. The eponymous story features the character of Screw-On Head, who is a small mechanical hero ...
First off, this is not what I was expecting. I was expecting a long-form graphic novel of just the Screw-On Head, but it turned out to be a short comic about the Screw-On Head and a bunch of other short comics.Everything was very well drawn, and the stories were well written. I loved the Screw-On...
A little different from the Mignola I'm used to, more humor. Still had the dark overtones that I really like and I loved how each of the stories gave hints that they might not be entirely separate. This almost seemed like an outlet for some of Mignola's more "crazy" ideas. Take for example, "The ...
This is an ecclectic collection of Hellboy short stories done by a variety of artists who were not Mignola. All of them are good, some of them are excellent. I do really like the format of a bunch of random stories, but I feel like they would have made a better coda to the collected editions inst...
Quite possibly the creepiest comic I've ever read. Get's my highest recommendation. The Crooked Man is one of the best Hellboy stories. Creepy atmosphere, brooding..
H.P. Lovecraft is arguably the biggest pulp influence on the Mignolaverse, but in "The Crooked Man," Mike Mignola takes a break from the normally cosmic goings-on to pay tribute to another writer from the classic "Weird Tales" roster: Manly Wade Wellman.In 1958, Hellboy, still working for the Bur...
As endings go, this was an epic ending. While some may have thought Hellboy did not possess his charm in this volume, I have to say it's not that it was flat. He had so much weighing on his shoulders that you could almost feel it throughout. When all else fails, go with your gut. I couldn't p...
Ok, I could get all sorts of used to Hellboy epics. Several different things from the past all come together in this one, and it doesn't quite finish here. This was all one long story, now moving into more fantasy realm than horror. It's not ghost stories anymore. It's witches under the earth and...
Little Hellboy is so cute in this followup to 1946. It's fun to see the B.P.R.D. in its infancy, too. There's a great correlation there, with Hellboy just wanting the professor to play baseball with him and the B.P.R.D. agents just wanting to go drinking in Paris. All the usual fun creepy stuff i...
1947 rewinds to the early days of the B.P.R.D., when there were just a few agents who didn't really understand what they were up against. There's some great stuff here: vampire covens, parallel realities, and tiny Hellboy playing baseball with Bruttenholm. But one of the best things this book has...
I loved everything about this book--the art, the story, the smell of the paper. This is the first Hellboy comic I've ever read, and it was nice to see a story from his past. I fondly remember reading "Something Wicked This Way Comes" in junior high. I had this morbid fascination with the creep...
Pretty decent book overall. I can't say that I *liked* it, but I definitely wasn't bored to tears or anything trying to get through it. It's a little slow to pick up and hook you, which is unfortunate if no one's told you--hang on until Chapter Six! It gets exciting.*****SPOILER!*****I don't thin...
I found this book on a library display of Neil Gaiman-esque reads. I love Gaiman so I grabbed it. Here's why I love Gaiman - magical, imaginative stories with unfailingly human characters. There's beauty in everything and there's moments that cannot fail to touch your heart. Also (and here's what...
It's been a number of years since I first read Seed of Destruction, the first Hellboy book, and, having read all of them at this point, I decided to go back and re-read the first book because my memories of it were hazy. Well, as I suspected, it's not a great first volume - but Hellboy is an incr...
Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission."A dragon is seen perching on the statue of Christ the Redeemeroverlooking Rio de Jane...
When I really love an author I will go and read everything that author has written (or attempt to), usually becoming so overwhelmed with his or her work that I get sick of it and cannot read it again for many years (Robert Jordan, Anne Rice, Jim Butcher, Kinky Friedman have all suffered this fate...
Religious artifacts from every faith are disappearing without a trace. The identity of the perpetrator is a complete mystery until Hellboy and Liz Sherman -- acting on an unlikely tip from a ghost -- foil a museum heist attempted by crude, robotic constructs inhabited by human spirits. One of t...
The pumpkin-headed kid, the kid with eyes like an insect, the beautiful girl without bones in her legs who rode on Lament’s shoulders, the dwarf with the big feet, the really weird conjoined twins who had two legs, two arms, and two heads, and Fishboy Lenny. It made for a ...