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Title: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Hellboy) by Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Mark Chiarello, Dave Stewart, Matthew Hollingsworth, Robert Bloch, Barbara Kesel, Scott Allie, Kevin Nowlan, Gary Grazzini ISBN: 1-59307-094-2 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a bad start...
Comment: As a columnist at the comic book website Comixtreme.com, a few months ago I asked my readers to rank the best graphic novels I'd personally never read, with the promise that I would try to read some of them and come back with my comments. This was one of the books that topped the list, the introduction of Mike Mignola's "Hellboy," and since there's a movie coming out later this year, I thought this was the perfect chance to check it out.
This is a decent little action tale, with Mignola and scripter John Byrne presenting our hero, a strange, demonic creature found as a child and raised by humans to be an agent of a sort of supernatural secret service. We also meet several of Hellboy's comerades, including my personal favorite, the amphibious Abe Sapien.
At the end of this graphic novel, though, I'm not left feeling like I've really gotten to know any of the characters. This book exists mainly to set up the situation -- Hellboy's origin, his occupation, etc. Hopefully future installments will get more in-depth as to who he really is, and not just in your standard superhero sense, but in a deeper, character-building sense as well. Still, this is a fun read and a nice place to start. It's good enough to have me on the lookout for Hellboy Vol. 2.
Rating: 2
Summary: Thoroughly Eh
Comment: Okay, yes the art is very good. I won't deny that. But if I went out of my way to envision a more deliberately unremarkable, completely cliche and predictable, story, I'd have a hard time of it. Gee, who's really evil? That's it, Nazis. They had no sense of morality. Who's not just evil, but creepy? Rasputin. The religious overtones are so hopelessly garbled, I can't begin to make sense of what's trying to be said (if anything.)
Rating: 3
Summary: GREAT concept and AMAZING art, not so great dialogue
Comment: I am not very familiar with Byrne so I don't know if this is typical for him but he writes a little too mundain and run-of-the-mill for such a fantastic story with great art like Hellboy. His dialogue and monologue for the villain in this book are horrible. It is completely boring and skippable. In fact that's the worst part, it is ENTIRELY skippable. This is even worse because at points there's PAGES of it. This villain just drones ON AND ON about a bunch of ..., and you can literally skip those whole sections and not lose ANYTHING. The stuff is just barely relevant and Byrne does nothing to it to make it interesting or write it with any originality. One could argue that Hellboy is a very "pulp" comic and that as such, the sort of writing and dialogue can be expected to be of a certain (read DULL AND TRITE) nature. But it's too much to be asked of the reader to settle on the writing when the story and art are so compelling.
Recap: Hellboy = original, Byrne's dialogue for it = horribly plain and done.
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Title: Hellboy: Wake the Devil by Michael Mignola, James Sinclair, Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569712263 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569713499 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 05 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569714894 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 26 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569716994 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Mike Mignola's B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth & Other Stories by Mike Mignola, Tom Sniegoski, Christopher Golden ISBN: 1569718628 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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