I was already a MASSIVE Mignola fan when Hellboy came out and I was deliriously happy every time I saw another appearance. Hellboy was so different from the majority of stuff we were seeing in the mid 90s, and just god level cartooning.

YES! Love the Wolves of Saint August. Thank you guys for what you do!

Thanks,guys! I was on the ground floor when this came out! Beautiful B&W ! Great composition and use of white space!👍 Later Wolves of St August came out as a color one shot with added story pages! Library editions are most certainly the way to go! Also, Mike’s sparse use of dialogue is show don’t tell at its finest! Read and make great comix!🎯👍👋

My absolute fave Hellboy comic. Concise and creepy. So much wonderful stuff to come later but this one is the true "essence of..." for me.

"Mignola has a way of getting into his world." - Ed That's why the movie adaptations don't feel right. They don't embrace the slow and quiet, the mood, and the dark. The comics are all about that when I read them (especially the ones illustrated by Mignola). Those cutaways to location details I feel like are meant to slow the pace. You're slowly walking through a horror show that only Hellboy can do because he was born in Hell. He ain't scared.

@stupidmonkey089

7 ай бұрын

" They don't embrace the slow and quiet, the mood, and the dark" is it 100%. That's the mood Hellboy comics have, as the tension builds during the seemingly normal conversations that turn dark, until a fight starts. Instead the movies just turn them into straight action movies

For me, the best Hellboy story ever told, hands down. It got everything.

WISH I would have gotten into Mignola early. Awesome seeing Rob McCallum represented on here, too! So cool seeing that RED ROOM tribute.

Kinda unrelated, but I wish there was a collection of all the little Dark Horse Presents odds and ends. There were so many cool creators doing interesting one-shots for them in the 90s it seems, but I've never read any of it other than the stuff that spun off to become larger comics.

Awesome, I was just telling my wife about this comic the other day cause she loves werewolf stories, I and love Mignola

7:20 there's a great bit in the ManBen: Fuyumi Soryo (MARS, it's on kindle unlimited btw) episode where she's arguing with her editor over g-pen vs her using fineliners and she went ahead and did it for like several issues in their trades and finally asked her editor if he noticed a difference lol

I love Clem Robins' work but I really miss those hand lettered, Pat Brosseau early Hellboy days...

Thanks, guys! Another feast for the eyes this time!

11:39 Man the Beauty of the Church and the next few Black and White Pages.

Just wanted to add my 2 cents about Frank Quitely and his early work. I think he got published in some UK undergrounds in the late 80's or early 90's. I used to have a couple copies of a Scottish pub called Electric Soup and was taken by the short humor stuff that Quitely contributed. Worth a look if you can find them.

One of my absolute favorite Hellboy stories.

Can't wait for the Hellboy In Hell artist/artisan edition!

Magnolia is definitely Eastern Roman vs Western Roman in art style.

It’s so crazy that some of early Hellboy stories were serialized a few pages at a time, since that’s not really a western comics thing

@Akhnatom

Жыл бұрын

How so? Wasn't that a standard for Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal and Dark Horse Presents?

@brianromecki5185

10 ай бұрын

Marvel Comics Presents was also doing a similar 4 stories per issue anthology format with some serialized stories (BWS’s Weapon X is a prime example).

Maybe that bird bit is from Citizen Kane, where Orson Wells tosses a bird loudly squawking to make exposition more exciting 😂