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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. (Ongoing Order) #16
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 - Secret Nature
A missing group of teens in Oregon's backwoods leads Hellboy to confront a cryptozoological horror with origins similar to his own!
*Thief of Thieves artist Shawn Martinbrough!
*Thief of Thieves artist Shawn Martinbrough!
24 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 9, 2017
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Mike Mignola
1,882 books2,507 followersMike Mignola was born September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland. His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age (he doesn't remember why) and reading Dracula at age 13 introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore from which he has never recovered.
In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began working for Marvel Comics, first as a (very terrible) inker and then as an artist on comics like Rocket Raccoon, Alpha Flight and The Hulk. By the late 80s he had begun to develop his signature style (thin lines, clunky shapes and lots of black) and moved onto higher profile commercial projects like Cosmic Odyssey (1988) and Gotham by Gaslight (1989) for DC Comics, and the not-so-commercial Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (1990) for Marvel. In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps Comics.
In 1993, Mike moved to Dark Horse comics and created Hellboy, a half-demon occult detective who may or may not be the Beast of the Apocalypse. While the first story line (Seed of Destruction, 1994) was co-written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself. There are, at this moment, 13 Hellboy graphic novel collections (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien and Witchfinder), three anthologies of prose stories, several novels, two animated films and two live-action films staring Ron Perlman. Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries.
Mike also created the award-winning comic book The Amazing Screw-on Head and has co-written two novels (Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and Joe Golem and the Drowning City) with best-selling author Christopher Golden.
Mike worked (very briefly) with Francis Ford Coppola on his film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer on the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and was visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). He lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, a lot of books and a cat.
In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began working for Marvel Comics, first as a (very terrible) inker and then as an artist on comics like Rocket Raccoon, Alpha Flight and The Hulk. By the late 80s he had begun to develop his signature style (thin lines, clunky shapes and lots of black) and moved onto higher profile commercial projects like Cosmic Odyssey (1988) and Gotham by Gaslight (1989) for DC Comics, and the not-so-commercial Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (1990) for Marvel. In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps Comics.
In 1993, Mike moved to Dark Horse comics and created Hellboy, a half-demon occult detective who may or may not be the Beast of the Apocalypse. While the first story line (Seed of Destruction, 1994) was co-written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself. There are, at this moment, 13 Hellboy graphic novel collections (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien and Witchfinder), three anthologies of prose stories, several novels, two animated films and two live-action films staring Ron Perlman. Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries.
Mike also created the award-winning comic book The Amazing Screw-on Head and has co-written two novels (Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and Joe Golem and the Drowning City) with best-selling author Christopher Golden.
Mike worked (very briefly) with Francis Ford Coppola on his film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer on the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and was visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). He lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, a lot of books and a cat.
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August 9, 2017
I liked this issue a lot! I hope the new guy appears more often (I don't remember his name lol, but I liked him in this issue. I wanna say it was John, but I don't think that was really it).
January 14, 2018
Εύκολη πλοκή, συνηθισμένη ιδέα, όλο το ζουμί στο όνομα του Στρομπλ.
June 28, 2020
Hellboy is on assignment with Woody, the black cryptozoologist from Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Unreasoning Beast. As this series is set in 1955 we ONCE again are exposed to the casual racism the caller displays towards Woody. I was gratified to see Hellboy stand up for Woody, who decides to be the bigger guy and just turns a blind eye to it (like most Asians have been told to do by their parents). One page later Hellboy asks Woody if he's bothered and I almost cry realizing how bad it is when Woody says "the fact that people are more accepting of a big red guy with horns and a tail than they are a black man". He hates it but welcome to the real world, then details how his parents wanted him to take up a trade as academia rejected him outright for any jobs, just on the basis of his race.
This ... this hit so close to home I almost teared up as I have experienced the same job discrimination in real life. Those who haven't ever been discriminated against can never understand, although, when one gets older they'll face age discrimination the one type of discrimination that's never talked about but yet is the MOST real. All this dialogue from a comic published in 2017 subtly hammers home the black lives matter issue in a sensitive yet restrained manner without taking away any of the emotional impact. Kudos.
Woody is excited to find a NEW species, but Hellboy scoffs saying it's probably another animal mutated by Enkeladite. Woody retorts that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and they make a bet that the loser buys drinks. In the end, Woody uses his smarts to save the day although it is a team effort. The problem is not what either of them expected so Hellboy buys drinks. It is rather ominous that the last panel shows Woody
This ... this hit so close to home I almost teared up as I have experienced the same job discrimination in real life. Those who haven't ever been discriminated against can never understand, although, when one gets older they'll face age discrimination the one type of discrimination that's never talked about but yet is the MOST real. All this dialogue from a comic published in 2017 subtly hammers home the black lives matter issue in a sensitive yet restrained manner without taking away any of the emotional impact. Kudos.
Woody is excited to find a NEW species, but Hellboy scoffs saying it's probably another animal mutated by Enkeladite. Woody retorts that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and they make a bet that the loser buys drinks. In the end, Woody uses his smarts to save the day although it is a team effort. The problem is not what either of them expected so Hellboy buys drinks. It is rather ominous that the last panel shows Woody
August 13, 2017
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 – Secret Nature is an excellent one-shot tale giving Woody and Red a simple, yet exciting case to investigate. During this the creative team give us some wonderful character development, using the limited page count to its full potential. So if you’re looking to try Hellboy for the first time, or simply give the Right Hand of Doom another go, then this is the perfect time to do so, with there being no need to further invest if it turns out not to be for you.
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August 26, 2017
A classic short hellboy story, let's take care of the thingy thank you and goodbye story.
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