Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Hellboy)
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Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Hellboy)
by Authors:
Mike Mignola , John Byrne , Mark Chiarello , Dave Stewart , Matthew Hollingsworth , Robert Bloch , Barbara Kesel , Scott Allie , Kevin Nowlan , Gary Grazzini
Released: January, 2004
ISBN: 1593070942
Paperback
Sales Rank: 551
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Customer Review #1:
 Hellboy saved comics, too.
Its a mistake to divorce writing and art from each other in comics. Flip through 90% of comics for the writing alone and youll cry for weeks on end. A good comic needs to be a total package. Its more than art and writing. Its ideas, its message, and its the gestalt. Comics with great art but bad writing are failures, and vice versa. Hellboy is a strong gestalt of what makes comics good.Comics fell straight into the toilet once the Batman movies hit. People were buying #1s just because they were #1s, hoping, lemming-like, to be able to fund their retirement some day. So the comics industry just started churning out new titles like some evil, money eating, out-of-control vomit machine. A lot of titles didnt make it past six issues, because they had no story, no depth, no long-term vision, just a gimmick. There were a number of comics worth reading, of course, there were a few that were great, but, oh, it was sad. Page after page after issue after issue of the same hackneyed superhero crap. And then Dark Horse Comics started the Legend imprint, with creators like Mignola, Frank Miller (Sin City), etc. The Legend imprint was for creativity in comics what Image comics was for the business end. And the sun rose again. In Hellboy, Mignola amalgamated some stuff in comics in a way that hadnt been done before, and brought back some stuff that hadnt been seen in the main stream in decades. In my view, Hellboy (and Sin City, and a few others) is responsible for saving comics from a slow, poison death at the hands of Big Business bean-counters who would rather license stories and knock off established work than stretch their mind out to the horizon, or into the inner darkness. Daredevil movie, anyone? And Mignola has some of the strongest single and two page compositions you will ever see in comics. Look for his black and white stuff, like Wolves of August, if you can find it.
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Customer Review #2:
Something else
First of all Id like to advise people who are willing to get into Hellboy to start here. Besides from this being the official first story you also get easily introduced to Hellboy and what hes about here, and the drift into Hellboy-reality is very natural and gentle. Besides from that its a very nice read as a stand-alone story. It doesnt end with something like a cliff-hanger that makes you need to buy continuing books. Its a book with a beginning and an end.About the story: Its been over 35 years since Trevor Bruttenholm first found the creature that was later named "Hellboy", a big red creature over 7 feet high, strong as ten men, with a tail and an artificial stone arm. Nobody knows what he is or where he came from, including himself (a thing about which you get more and more hints as time goes by, not only in this particular volume). That was at the end of World War II on the scene of an occult experiment by a Nazi group trying to grab on to probably their last chances of enpowering the Reich. Now, the present, Trevor reaches out to Hellboy, who has since gone on to work for the "Bureau of Paranormal Investigation", because he desperately needs his aid. Weird extra-natural murders are taking place and its up to Hellboy and his agency to find what kind of mystical powers are on a rampage and, even more important, who unleashed them. What you have here is a title that especially people who like things like "X-Files" and "Planetary" will like a lot. Its about an agency that goes around the world to solve super-natural crimes and puzzles, but the members of the agency arent that normal theirselves either. All this in a pretty gritty and dark atmosphere. Its very well-written, everything fits, and what also is really nice is that the creator (Mike Mignola) NEVER gave the story-writing or the art-job away in any of the following books. The creator sticks with his book and it really shows later on, when you see how things keep clicking and keep the same atmosphere. Must-buy for Planetary and X-Files fans and alike.
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Customer Review #3:
From Hell It Came
This is the first book in the Hellboy series (soon to be a major motion picture). This is the only book I have read in the series, so far. Its an good start. The characters are intriguing and the artwork is fantastic. It made me want to read more of Hellboys stories, which of course is what the first comic in a series is supposed to do. I would recommend this book to comics fans who like their heroes to be a bit out of the ordinary.
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