If you’ve never dipped your toes into the world of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, today is the day you rectify that mistake. Humble Bundle is currently offering a huge collection of Hellboy comics.
If you’ve never read a Hellboy comic before, the series follows the titular character, a hulking half-demon who works for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, battling various monsters, ghouls and occultists. Drawing heavy inspiration from various pieces of folklore, classic horror stories and old pulp adventures, the series is a fantastic ride and one of the most enduring comic runs of the past 30 years.
This Humble Bundle collects the main Hellboy series, along with a few extra odds and ends (there are 36 digital items included worth $425, all up). If your exposure to Hellboy is mostly informed by the movies, you’ll be surprised by how different these comic stories are.
As far as cartoonists go, Mignola is one of the best to ever do it. I love how his art looks like it was carved into the page with those thin ink lines and thick patches of shadows.
The Hellboy comics represent the lion’s share of Mignola’s published art and it’s a real treat watching his unique style evolve as you read through it (if you can get your hands on it, I highly recommend the Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom team-up graphic novel he drew).
Even when Mignola drops off art duties to focus solely on writing, Duncan Fegredo manages to knock it out of the park with work that still feels in line with previous Hellboy stories while still being its own thing. Interpretation, not imitation.
It’s worth noting that this Humble bundle only touches the main Hellboy series and doesn’t include anything from the various BPRD and solo- series that have been published. Here’s hoping Humble drops a BPRD or a wider Mignola-verse collection bundle sooner rather than later.
What do you get in the Hellboy Humble Bundle?
The twelve volumes of the main Hellboy series and the two Hellboy in Hell collections are well worth the $30, but the inclusion of a few one-shots, spin-off graphic novels and anthology collections are a welcome bonus.
There are also a couple of prose novels and short story collections – which aren’t written by Mignola – if you prefer your Hellboy stories without pictures. It’s always fun to see how other creators interpret the Hellboy universe.
Here’s what the basic $1.57 bundle will get you:
- Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
- Ghost/Hellboy Special
- Itty Bitty Hellboy
- Hellboy Winter Special 2016
- Hellboy: Odd Jobs (anthology of short stories)
- A coupon for 25 per cent off your first month of Humble Choice
Here’s what you’ll also get if you pay $15.72:
- Hellboy Volume 2: Wake the Devil
- Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others
- Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom
- Hellboy Volume 5: Conqueror Worm
- Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea OGN
- Hellboy: All-Seeing Eye (novel)
- Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (anthology of short stories)
- Hellboy Winter Special 2017
- Hellboy Winter Special 2018
- Hellboy Winter Special 2019
- Hellboy: Krampusnacht one-shot
- Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson in: The Ring of Death one-shot
And here’s what you get when you pay at least $28.29:
- Hellboy Volume 6: Strange Places
- Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others
- Hellboy Volume 8: Darkness Calls
- Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt
- Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others
- Hellboy Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others
- Hellboy Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury
- Hellboy in Hell Volume 1: The Descent
- Hellboy in Hell Volume 2: The Death Card
- Hellboy: 25 Years of Covers
- Hellboy: Weird Tales
- Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land mini-series
- Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (anthology of short stories)
- Hellboy: Emerald Hell (novel)
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu one-shot
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Long Night at Goloski Station one-shot
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Seven Wives Club one-shot
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Her Fatal Hour one-shot
The Hellboy Humble Bundle is available here.
Image: Dark Horse Comics
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