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Hellboy: Bones of Giants >
Customer Review #1:
 NO THIS IS NOT LIKE SPAWN AT ALL!!!! That is a good thing.
First thing that is most important to let everyone know, from a fan of Hellboy, Hellboy and Spawn....compare apples and oranges. Both are fruit but are not alike beyond that. Dont listen to anyone who says contrary. Unlike Spawn, Hellboy is not some whiny self-pitying creature and has more heart than Spawn by a long shot. Hes was born a demon, is a demon and accepts that but accepts also with ease, no brooding in some dump of an ally, that he can defy his heritage. This novel though I have to admit is not as detailed as the previous Hellboy novel, is still plenty of fun. A heavy read? No, deffinetly not a heavy read. So just read and enjoy. And within a week you can get back to your heavier reading. Again, this is not like Spawn. X-files, sure with a little of Doc Samson thrown in. But Spawn, no. The two should not even be mentioned in the same sentence unless to dinstinguish the two. No exggaterated capes to trip on from Hellboy. Just a normal overcoat.
Hellboy: Bones of Giants >
Customer Review #2:
 This will never work as a movie....
Well Hellboy is currently being made as a movie by Warner Brothers, and this book gives you an indro to the character but its really like Spawn, its a shallow story which trys to be like X-Files or a bad episode of Fantasy Island. The concept is bad and will not work as a film. It does not even work as a comic.
Hellboy: Bones of Giants >
Customer Review #3:
 Interesting Concept Cant Make Up For Flawed Execution
Ive been a fan of Paranormal investigator Hellboy ever since he burst onto the comic-book scene courtesy of creator Mike Mignola and publisher Dark Horse Comics, so needless to say I was thrilled when Dark Horse announced that he would be the star of a series of Novels by Horror author Christopher Golden. The enthusiasm waned a bit (Actually it died...) after I read the first book, Hellboy: The Lost Army; I didnt care for it, so I saved The Bones of Giants and the short story collection Odd Jobs for later. Guess Odd Jobs will get put on the back-burner AGAIN, cause I really didnt think Bones of Giants was much better. The concept is great- Hellboy is called in to investigate the discovery of a gigantic corpse in Sweden, which turns out to be the remains of the Norse God of Thunder, Thor; Hellboy picks up Thors hammer Mjollnir, is struck by the lightning the hammer can summon, and finds that not only is the hammer now fused to his right hand, but hes now also the unwilling host for the essence of the "Thunder-Bearer"; Good thing, though- It seems as if Thor isnt the only Norse Deity to be making a comeback; Thrym, a vengeful Frost Giant, has also risen from his grave, and hes looking for a do-over of Ragnarok, the legendary "Twilight of the Gods", and it looks like only Hellboy and his fish-man partner Abe Sapien can stand in his way. If Mignola had handled this in the comic, it would have been solid-gold. Here it just seems stagnant. I really have nothing bad to say about Christopher Goldens writing; He gets the job done, but his style just didnt do anything for me. Avid readers will know what I mean- There are some Authors whose books you just hate to put down, and some whose books you just hate to pick up. For me, Golden falls into the latter category. The only reason I was even able to muster up the resolve to finish the book is because I had no choice! (I finished the last 50 or so pages in the Dentists office waiting for the Novocaine to kick in.) To his credit, Golden did manage to make the final showdown interesting, but it still wasnt enough for a recommendation. The book has dozens of spot illustrations by Mignola, and although hes hands-down my ALL-TIME FAVORITE artist, theyre not his best work, and serve more as mood-setters than actual representations of what is going on in the story at any given time. Kudos to Dark Horse for trying something different, though. The paperbacks are a great idea, especially with the Hellboy movie looming for Summer of 2004, and Id love to see more, but please give another Author a try...? Maybe Poppy Z. Brite, Edward Lee, or Jack Ketchum?
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