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...
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...
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...
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...
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..
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...