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	Hellboy, Vol. 6 : Strange Places by Mike Mignola
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 741 EAN 9781593074753 ISBN 1593074751 Manufacturer Dark Horse Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 152 Publication Date May 10, 2006 Publisher Dark Horse Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description Mike Mignola returns with his first new Hellboy collection since 2002's Conqueror Worm. After leaving the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy's travels take him briefly to Africa, then for a two-year stint at the bottom of the ocean. An ancient witch doctor, a giant fish woman and keeper of the secret history of the universe force Hellboy to either accept his role in the coming apocalypse, or have that role stolen from him. Weird undersea creatures and talking lions populate this turning-point adventure, which reveals secrets buried since Hellboy's very creation. This volume collects Harvey-and-Eisner-award winner Mike Mignola's Hellboy series The Third Wish and The Island with over a dozen unused pages and a new epilogue. Mignola's first collection in his popular Hellboy series (since the 2004 film based on it) features two odd, bleak fables. The first and more successful is 'The Third Wish,' in which the demonic hero has an enchanted nail driven into his skull and encounters an enormous talking fish who grants her own granddaughters' wishes with fatal consequences. In the process, Hellboy learns that he may be fated to bring about the end of the world. The ending is unremittingly dark, with all the surviving characters trapped by prophecies that have the crushing power of myth. Mignola admits in his notes that he struggled with 'The Island,' which has to do with 'the entire secret history of the world,' a dragon, some centuries-dead Crusaders and a bunch of Lovecraftian monsters, and ultimately it doesn't make a lot of sense. Fortunately, Mignola's moody, jagged, chiaroscuro-crazed artwork makes everything look lushly sinister and engaging, even when the story threatens to collapse into action scenes. Hellboy himself is a terrific contrast to his grim surroundings: a hard-boiled demon who shrugs off death itself with a 'yeah, yeah' and is convinced, against all the evidence, that he's one of the good guys. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. In the first collection since his hit (or not, depending who you ask) movie, good-guy demon Hellboy tussles with a fish-witch (not at all like Mickey D's) and a revenant sorcerer in two chronologically successive long stories that Mignola says inaugurate a string of Hellboy jaunts to strange places. The fun begins with the Bog Roosh (i.e., the fish-witch) promising three mermaids that she'll grant the greatest wish of each if they'll pound a nail into Hellboy's noggin. Meanwhile, Hellboy keeps an appointment with a 200-years-dead African witch doctor, who gives him a bell and sees him off into the ocean to encounter the Bog Roosh. After lotsa underwater spookery, H-b washes up on an island to face the revenant, who claims to know the prehistory of God, which entails a crew of malevolent great spirits. Mignola's potent mixture of dynamic though gloomy narrow-palette artwork and dialogue in which wisecracking Hellboy deflates the supernatural villains' windy portentousness makes both stories simultaneously scary and funny. Good to the last panel for horror fans. Ray Olson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Mike Mignola returns with his first new Hellboy collection since 2002's Conqueror Worm. After leaving the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy's travels take him briefly to Africa, then for a two-year stint at the bottom of the ocean. An ancient witch doctor, a giant fish woman and keeper of the secret history of the universe force Hellboy to either accept his role in the coming apocalypse, or have that role stolen from him. Weird undersea creatures and talking lions populate this turning-point adventure, which reveals secrets buried since Hellboy's very creation. This volume collects Harvey-and-Eisner-award winner Mike Mignola's Hellboy series The Third Wish and The Island with over a dozen unused pages and a new epilogue. Customers who bought this item also bought Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Other Stories Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls Customer Reviews for: Hellboy, Vol. 6 : Strange Places Rating - Mignola Hits Another Homer. The sixth collection of Mike Mignola's incredible HELLBOY series, STRANGE PLACES collects two separate two-issue mini-series, THE THIRD WISH and THE ISLAND, along with a brand-new epilogue, the never-before-seen pages from an aborted version of THE ISLAND, and a sketchbook section, along with Mignola's notes about the creation of the issues. After quitting the B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense), Hellboy gets kidnapped ... Read More Rating - Well crafted, in word & deed Mike Mignola has done it again with an excellent addition to the series. The mythos of Hellboy grows deeper and Mignola reveals some of his frustrations and sidetracks in creating the seminal character. Included are the failed rough drafts for the second story-an entire narrative scuttled because it wasn't quite right. Attention to detail like this make the noir adventures of Hellboy that much more enjoyable. Rating - Vol 5: Pure Genius ... vol 6? Eh... I don't know anything about the background of this book nor anything about the author's other projects as the other reviewers. I'm just judging this at face value based on my own entertainment value. Personally, this one lost me. Maybe my impressions of this volume will change after reading 7 and 8 (the latest volume available at the time of this review.) Volume 5 hit a crescendo ... and I somewhat enjoyed the first half of this book. But then the ... Read More Rating - Read all of them, then read them again I love the drawings, the characters and the storyline. And even more the questions it brings. Soul, evil, love, destiny, God, "Why am I here?" It isn't a distraction from the most important things in my life, its a chance to see them through another lens. see more reviews See all books by author Mike Mignola

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