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Title: Hellboy: Wake the Devil by Michael Mignola, James Sinclair, Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569712263 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Hellboy's hurly burly
Comment: With "Hellboy: Wake the Devil" Mignola again shows his strength in weaving together unconnected folklore and his own inventions, creating a seamless fantastic reality that grows with every story. Darker, more confident than "Seeds of Destruction," the mythology comes together.
Nazis, Imperial Prussians and Greek and Russian goddesses make for strange bedfellows, but here we have a Napoleonic vampire Commander, Vladimir Giurescu, the delightful Nazi scientists Ilsa Haupstein and the Ragna Rok Project, Rasputin the Mad Monk, the Baba Yaga, the Greek Goddess Hecate and of course a living Head in a Jar, all conspiring against our heroes. Fighting for the good guys are the usual cast of Abe Sapien, Hellboy and the BRPD. If that isn't enough to get your appetite wet, then you are reading the wrong customer review.
More than most series, "Hellboy: Wake the Devil" advances the overall plot of Hellboy's story, uncovering key points of his origin and destiny. The epilog, only available in this trade paperback, adds an interesting element to the story of the Baba Yaga and Rasputin.
Rating: 5
Summary: Homunculus + Horror, Adding To the Cast
Comment: Wake the Devil is a superb second take on the Hellboy saga and is just as good, if not better, than Seeds of Destruction (its hard to compare the two because both are so good). Its a bit more bleak/darker than its prior, introducing even odder concepts and distortions of myth to weave a story all its own. Yes, it seems there are Nazi plots galore for everyone's favorite paranormal investigator to deal with, not to mention the addition of Roger, B.P.R.D.'s first "contact" with a human-sized homunculus. Also included is a five-page epilogue dealing with Baba Yaga and The World Tree, a concept introduced in the comics but only added to the in this graphic novel forum. The graphic novels also clean up the coloration, giving you more crisp images than the comics could ever dream of.
A word of caution to those thinking that the numbered books can be taken out of sequential order without hurting the storyline. It can indeed be done, but Wake the Devil should be a second step taken in the reading "evolution" of the Hellboy saga because of some of the characters/events/plot lines started have either been groomed or are birthed here.
Rating: 5
Summary: The fabulous Hellboy series continues.
Comment: I found this book to be every bit as enjoyable as the first book (Seed of Destruction). I also found that this book had a couple of weak points to the plot, and in the pacing of the storyline, just like the first book.
However, those where the only weak points. The rest of the story was very enjoyable and well crafted. The art is simply stunning. I will continue to read more of "Hellboy" in the future.
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Title: Hellboy: Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569714894 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 26 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569713499 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 05 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola ISBN: 1569716994 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne ISBN: 1569713162 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hellboy: Odd Jobs by Michael Mignola, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden ISBN: 1569714401 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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