Really liked this one. Roger the Homunculus proves himself. So good. ( )

990

God damn Nazi-Frankenstein monkey! You don't know when to quit!

I love these books.



They're the perfect blend of hilarious and creepy.



And they do a good job of hinting at just what is it that makes someone a person?



Plus, you have one of the craziest core ideas for a plotline yet. There are spectral entities out in that want to come down, but they need a body to do so. How, may you ask?



Yup.

Also: Hellboy spends a lot of time falling and crashing through things. What in the world would it take to actually kill him? ( )

Continuing to catch up on old Hellboy collections I read and never reviewed, this is a great continuation of the "main arc" with Hellboy starting to question why he's doing what he's doing (a nice build on the events of Right Hand of Doom), Lobster Johnson turning up, and a creepy plot by everyone's favorite floating head. Great work by Mignola as always. ( )

Oddly enough, or perhaps not oddly at all, I'm really enjoying Hellboy. At first it was just an intellectual enjoyment, getting all into the conspiracy stuff and the metaphysics and the magic as well as the history, but now I'm just rocking to the stories being told.

It's filled with gentle reveals, perhaps no more than hints, and we've got a grand sweep of untold history, but all these snippets are pure gold.

I like Lobster Johnson and Roger a lot. Alien intelligences and cthuhlu entities? Even more. :)

I'm almost sad that I'm reading this as a buddy-read of one volume per month. I kinda want to rip through these now. I'm hooked.
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