Just finished reading this great book. Mike Mignola never ceases to amaze me. His art is dark and at times very simplistic, but it doesn't change how cool it is. Even though the title might turn some off, I would recommend any one of MM's works.
Mignola draws on a large collection of folktales, therefore making for some interesting stories. It's not just about a demon who is supposedly here to end the world. As stressed in the movie, your origins don't always determine who you are.
As I read through each one of the Hellboy volumes, I see a lot of the catch phrases that are used in the movie, thus giving us a great feel for HB's personality. The film draws from several Hellboy tales. "The Corpse" was the inspiration for Ivan at the end of the film where the long dead Russian leads Hellboy into the bowels of Rasputin's tomb. A great short story based on an Irish folktale called "Teig O'Kane and the Corpse."
Enough raving for now. I'm off to read The Right Hand of Doom.
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