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The Dark Horse Book Of Monsters (The Dark Horse Book of ...)
Mike Mignola takes Hellboy on a monster-crunching mission and Gary Gianni provides illustrations for a classic tale of South Seas horror by William Hope Hodgson in this fourth addition to Dark Horse's Eisner-nominated books of Hauntings, Witchcraft and The Dead. Along with Mignola and Gianni, Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson - who won Eisners in both 2004 and 2005 for their s...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published
December 20th 2006
by Dark Horse
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Sebina (Classicmaiden)
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A great series with a nice selection of stories. I liked Scott Allie's introductions which perfectly leads you into the books. My favourite stories in this book consists of the Hellboy story, 'The Hydra and the lion' which was I thought was as always quite brilliant, and the Beasts of Burden story, 'A Dog and His Boy' which has become my favourite story of the Beasts of Burden stories released thus far in these books and in the four issue mini-series released in late 2009. So yes, simply, a powe...more
This anthology was okay, but I really only liked about half the stories ... Hellboy is a given, and then the stories by Busiek and Dorkin. I actually found the Evan Dorkin tale kind of heart wrenching. Actually I take that back, the Scott Allie story was pretty good too.
The first three collections in this series seemed to steadily improve, but this one dipped back down a bit. The Beasts of Burden story was the strongest of the lot, but nothing else made much of an impression.
I loved the one about the archaeologists in the desert and the short story by William Hope Hodgson. Oh, and the Beasts of Burden short story.
The art was better than the writing in this series of short horror comics, in my opinion.
i like mignola
Great short stories, great artists. Check out the whole series!
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Mike Joseph Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer, famous for creating the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has also worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head.
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