Hellboy Library Edition, Volume 3: Conqueror Worm and Strange Places Author: Visit Amazon's Mike Mignola Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1595823522 | Format: EPUB
Hellboy Library Edition, Volume 3: Conqueror Worm and Strange Places Description
- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Dark Horse; Library ed edition (October 13, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1595823522
- ISBN-13: 978-1595823526
- Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.2 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
In the comic book medium there's nothing quite like Hellboy or the phenomenon the he's become. Mike Mignola is a storyteller with a unique but also effective style. This volume collects two very different stories.
The first Conqueror Worm is a mix of old pulp fiction, Lovecraftian mythology and science fiction. How Mignola manages to bridge these genres as well as he does is a testimony to carefully created structure that's supported by art that accommodates the stories.
The next pair of stories constitute Strange Places and the are Hellboy's weird adventures after he's left the BPRD. These are mythologically and horror based stories but they are also a new and decidedly different direction as Hellboy literally walks between the worlds of legends and nightmares. Visually these are more dismal but also more exotic places, but Hellboy seems to have prepared his whole lifetime for this plunge into these very strange places. The story featuring Hellboy's experience with the deep ocean denizens, mermaids and an evil sea hag was particularly interesting. Artistically it looks like it was a lot of fun to design. Mignola's artwork has changed over the years and the emphasis on design has never been stronger than in the stories featured here. Dave Stewart's colors throughout this volume are perfect
This volume, like the previous two, is big and just a little bit unwieldy. I like that. Sitting and reading it, studying every page and panel is the point. The hardcover (with the nice little color plate inset on the cover) is solid with tight binding, but has such a large format and heavy paper stock that makes it durable but it also makes it easy to stay open to read.
The Hardback selection of Hellboy is nice because it does away with the paperback settings that are so prone to damage, looks good no matter where you set it, does not damage at the spine easily, and it combines different books under one room. Take this selection for example:
In the CW (A shout out to Poe with some tentacle funderland under it), you have a story that still deals with the Seven and with the deal that brought Hellboy into play. In some ways it even feels like things were building towards this horror. We all know the Nazis had secret projects but we were not privy to their space program or the fact that it worked. It had been left behind, too, and death had visited the pilot. Since death is only a starting point for some things this meant that a vessel had been shot into space and its targets - they noticed and sent something back. This also deals with the death Lobster Johnson, the selection of people that are pointed out in the first movie (but that look sexy as they move through the pages of this book), and with Rasputin and what can happen to someone that keeps a certain Mortar lovin' manna floatin' around (man, he must hate acorns because of this). I liked this book a lot because it had the mood and the structure of a Mignola piece, it dealt with the last of the big books o' Nazis, and it had some primetime players. The thing in it showed its face, revealed more on the reason Hellboy could doom humanity (there are SOOO many ways), and made me think "what a tale" in the end.
I liked it quite a bit.
Next, we have Strange Places:
The main things about this book are as follows - The Third Wish
In The Third Wish, Hellboy find himself in Africa seeking answers as to why he exists.
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