Mignola's unique art style is on display here too, with Dave Stewart doing a wonderful job with the colors. (He's actually being totally serious here, having just witnessed some awful stuff.) And Hellboy himself is a great character, using humor, intelligence, and his fists to overcome difficult situations. He invests enough imagination into the proceedings to make the bad guys seem really bad (and dangerous) and action lively. Hellboy punches evil entities), but it's a formula that works. Hellboy investigates creepy location filled with humans stupidly trying to control/summon evil entities 2. Modern-day Nazis, a Frankenstein's monster-like ape, a floating head, and other assorted ghosts and ghouls await them.īy now, Mignola has his formula worked out (1. The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense sends Hellboy and another operative, Roger the Homunculus, into the mountains of Austria to investigate a castle linked to a 1939 Nazi space program. Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm was a four-issue mini-series originally published in 2001, and it is another solid entry in the Hellboy series. This Mignola guy might be on to something, here. Hellboy volume 5: The Conqueror Worm, by Mike Mignola, 2004, Dark Horse, 168 pages, $17.95
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