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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 2: Gods and Monsters
Between tracking down the followers of a prescient teen pursued by crab-like, subterranean beasts, and dealing with a redneck priest who preaches by way of human mutilation to fanatical hillbillies, the B.P.R.D. certainly have their hands full. Can a fractured B.P.R.D. wage a winnable war or are they fighting a battle of attrition? Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, and drawn by 2009 Eisner Award winner Guy Davis (The Marquis) and series newcomer Tyler Crook, B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters continues the series ComicsAlliance calls "one of the best books on the stands."
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2012
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Mike Mignola
1,872 books2,541 followersMike Mignola was born September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland. His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age (he doesn't remember why) and reading Dracula at age 13 introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore from which he has never recovered.
In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began working for Marvel Comics, first as a (very terrible) inker and then as an artist on comics like Rocket Raccoon, Alpha Flight and The Hulk. By the late 80s he had begun to develop his signature style (thin lines, clunky shapes and lots of black) and moved onto higher profile commercial projects like Cosmic Odyssey (1988) and Gotham by Gaslight (1989) for DC Comics, and the not-so-commercial Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (1990) for Marvel. In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps Comics.
In 1993, Mike moved to Dark Horse comics and created Hellboy, a half-demon occult detective who may or may not be the Beast of the Apocalypse. While the first story line (Seed of Destruction, 1994) was co-written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself. There are, at this moment, 13 Hellboy graphic novel collections (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien and Witchfinder), three anthologies of prose stories, several novels, two animated films and two live-action films staring Ron Perlman. Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries.
Mike also created the award-winning comic book The Amazing Screw-on Head and has co-written two novels (Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and Joe Golem and the Drowning City) with best-selling author Christopher Golden.
Mike worked (very briefly) with Francis Ford Coppola on his film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer on the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and was visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). He lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, a lot of books and a cat.
In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began working for Marvel Comics, first as a (very terrible) inker and then as an artist on comics like Rocket Raccoon, Alpha Flight and The Hulk. By the late 80s he had begun to develop his signature style (thin lines, clunky shapes and lots of black) and moved onto higher profile commercial projects like Cosmic Odyssey (1988) and Gotham by Gaslight (1989) for DC Comics, and the not-so-commercial Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (1990) for Marvel. In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps Comics.
In 1993, Mike moved to Dark Horse comics and created Hellboy, a half-demon occult detective who may or may not be the Beast of the Apocalypse. While the first story line (Seed of Destruction, 1994) was co-written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself. There are, at this moment, 13 Hellboy graphic novel collections (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien and Witchfinder), three anthologies of prose stories, several novels, two animated films and two live-action films staring Ron Perlman. Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries.
Mike also created the award-winning comic book The Amazing Screw-on Head and has co-written two novels (Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and Joe Golem and the Drowning City) with best-selling author Christopher Golden.
Mike worked (very briefly) with Francis Ford Coppola on his film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer on the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and was visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). He lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, a lot of books and a cat.
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April 23, 2019
Two shorter stories in this volume. Gods focuses on a teenage runaway with psychic powers called Fenix. Abe and Devon head to Texas to investigate, ending in an "Oh shit!" moment. Monsters is about Liz hiding out in a trailer park trying to just live her life until she gets brought into some hillbilly madness. Tyler Crook (known later for Harrow County) takes over as the series artist and I really like his art.
November 25, 2015
This volume isn't a five issue story called 'Gods & Monsters' but rather a slapping together of a three-parter called 'Gods' and a two-parter called... oh, but you've already guessed.
This isn't to say it's bad; on the contrary, the old-school comicbook reader in me absolutely LOVES getting some shorter stories from time-to-time in this era of bloated epics. I really enjoyed both of these tales, despite... or perhaps because of... the fact they leave the reader with more questions than they answer.
Oh, and the ending to 'Monsters'? Whoa.
Anyway, I've gotta go... My wife needs me in the kitchen.
(Head out of the gutter, you filth!)
This isn't to say it's bad; on the contrary, the old-school comicbook reader in me absolutely LOVES getting some shorter stories from time-to-time in this era of bloated epics. I really enjoyed both of these tales, despite... or perhaps because of... the fact they leave the reader with more questions than they answer.
Oh, and the ending to 'Monsters'? Whoa.
Anyway, I've gotta go... My wife needs me in the kitchen.
(Head out of the gutter, you filth!)
January 9, 2018
Two very strong storylines here, one about a group of homeless kids led by a psychic girl named Fenix, another about Liz living as a recluse with some hillbillies and getting mixed up in some crazy shit. Unfortunately, Guy Davis ends his long tenure as a BPRD artist with this volume, but the amazing Tyler Crook (of Harrow County fame) takes his place and I couldn't be happier — if anything, his style looks even better. Overall, Gods and Monsters is yet another excellent entry in the BPRD series.
April 28, 2019
So Abe Sapien is “dead” and the new character Fenix is trying to bring down a crazy redneck cult that worships a mutilated corpse? Damn this is why I Love the BPRD comics you never know what’s gonna happen. Plague of Frogs was spectacular I hope the rest of Hell on Earth will be this good!
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August 4, 2024
Weird stuff is happening in a trailer park, and the B.P.R.D. are hunting for someone with psychic powers. The trailer park storyline has some quite grisly art. It was a bit much for me.
March 17, 2012
The volcano in Houston from the first book seems to have more importance than I first thought where it seems to have transformed the city into a kind of ghost town with mob rule. Abe and Johann head down there to look for a special girl who seems to have a cult following because she foresaw the natural disasters.
Not for nothing, but haven't we seen a red-headed girl with psychic powers called Fenix before (or variations on that name)? Don't know why Mike Mignola and John Arcudi went with such as obvious X-Men reference but they pick up the story with Liz Sherman, the other red-head girl with psychic powers (how imaginative).
Liz is living in a trailer park dealing with the scarring of her last adventures with BPRD (see "Vol 14: King of Fear") but even life as a recluse won't save her from craziness as a new band of possessed nutjobs start mutilating each other and large numbers of frogs start showing up - again! Again with the frogs storyline... at least I hope they don't, it's played out.
"Gods and Monsters" is a pretty fun book for the most part despite the questionable choice of character in Fenix, and the frogs thing. The Liz storyline is especially good, I always liked her character and, with a major character supposedly dying, hopefully she'll get more focus in the following books. And anyway, dying in comics is never the end for characters so don't be surprised if they somehow make an impossible recovery. There's hope for this BPRD series yet!
Not for nothing, but haven't we seen a red-headed girl with psychic powers called Fenix before (or variations on that name)? Don't know why Mike Mignola and John Arcudi went with such as obvious X-Men reference but they pick up the story with Liz Sherman, the other red-head girl with psychic powers (how imaginative).
Liz is living in a trailer park dealing with the scarring of her last adventures with BPRD (see "Vol 14: King of Fear") but even life as a recluse won't save her from craziness as a new band of possessed nutjobs start mutilating each other and large numbers of frogs start showing up - again! Again with the frogs storyline... at least I hope they don't, it's played out.
"Gods and Monsters" is a pretty fun book for the most part despite the questionable choice of character in Fenix, and the frogs thing. The Liz storyline is especially good, I always liked her character and, with a major character supposedly dying, hopefully she'll get more focus in the following books. And anyway, dying in comics is never the end for characters so don't be surprised if they somehow make an impossible recovery. There's hope for this BPRD series yet!
October 16, 2022
Encounters with new monsters and cults continue as the story moves forward in a slow but steady fashion.
January 28, 2016
More consequence and world building! Oh yes!
The first 'Hell on Earth' arc was spectacular. Not only did Mignola and Arcudi keep their promise that this is not a temporary thing and that this is indeed a new world but they've built upon it and created a new landscape of story for readers to explore. So, what part of this new world do we see this time around and is it good? Yes and yes!
World: I love Guy Davis art, there is nothing to say about it's brilliant. The second story is done by Crook which though similar in style is distinct enough to be different and I like it, it's not Davis but the colors and the character designs fall very much in line with the Mignolaverse. The world building in the first story is amazing. I won't ruin anything for readers but man with this new world Mignola and Arcudi are carving out new pieces of the world for us to explore and not only that, it ties back to the greater Mignolaverse. This is simply amazing world building. The second story is much more focused and local but still very interesting offering an addition ground level look at the new status quo.
Story: 'Gods' is amazing, not only is it paced well and written well, it also offers a complete story with huge ramifications to the greater arc which is slowly just developing. With the new world and the rules being different the reader is still getting a glimpse of how to orient themselves to this world and their expectations. Luckily, the steady hands of Arcudi and Mignola make for story that is both grounded and grand at the same time. 'Monsters' is similar in tone and design but focuses on a character we've not seen in a while. Not only does it answer the question of where that person is, but also offers additional world building for the people of this new world. I did however find the second story a bit jumpy and I think a little bit more context and a couple of more pages to spread the story would have been great for character development.
Characters: The characters are amazing and the dialog is fantastic. I won't get into the characters that are staples now, they are real and fully formed. What I will talk about is the new character Fenix, she's presented well and the mystery behind her is one that I look forward to unraveling. The ramifications of these characters old and new and what they went through this arc and what happens to the world is fantastic. However, I did feel that a couple of more pages would have been great for 'Monsters' to flesh out the supporting cast of that tale giving the story more weight.
A great read from one of my favorite series, there is no letting up on the quality with this series, it's just amazing and fraktastic amazing!
Onward to the next book!
The first 'Hell on Earth' arc was spectacular. Not only did Mignola and Arcudi keep their promise that this is not a temporary thing and that this is indeed a new world but they've built upon it and created a new landscape of story for readers to explore. So, what part of this new world do we see this time around and is it good? Yes and yes!
World: I love Guy Davis art, there is nothing to say about it's brilliant. The second story is done by Crook which though similar in style is distinct enough to be different and I like it, it's not Davis but the colors and the character designs fall very much in line with the Mignolaverse. The world building in the first story is amazing. I won't ruin anything for readers but man with this new world Mignola and Arcudi are carving out new pieces of the world for us to explore and not only that, it ties back to the greater Mignolaverse. This is simply amazing world building. The second story is much more focused and local but still very interesting offering an addition ground level look at the new status quo.
Story: 'Gods' is amazing, not only is it paced well and written well, it also offers a complete story with huge ramifications to the greater arc which is slowly just developing. With the new world and the rules being different the reader is still getting a glimpse of how to orient themselves to this world and their expectations. Luckily, the steady hands of Arcudi and Mignola make for story that is both grounded and grand at the same time. 'Monsters' is similar in tone and design but focuses on a character we've not seen in a while. Not only does it answer the question of where that person is, but also offers additional world building for the people of this new world. I did however find the second story a bit jumpy and I think a little bit more context and a couple of more pages to spread the story would have been great for character development.
Characters: The characters are amazing and the dialog is fantastic. I won't get into the characters that are staples now, they are real and fully formed. What I will talk about is the new character Fenix, she's presented well and the mystery behind her is one that I look forward to unraveling. The ramifications of these characters old and new and what they went through this arc and what happens to the world is fantastic. However, I did feel that a couple of more pages would have been great for 'Monsters' to flesh out the supporting cast of that tale giving the story more weight.
A great read from one of my favorite series, there is no letting up on the quality with this series, it's just amazing and fraktastic amazing!
Onward to the next book!
February 27, 2012
A quick read but it feels a little bit like a place holder in the current B.P.R.D story line. We get foreshadowing of significant changes coming for Abe and Liz (characters familiar to fans of the movies). And, all of this takes place with the monster invasion of Earth and natural disasters ravaging the planet. We are introduced the character Fenix, but we as yet do not have a real clue as to her role in the scheme of things.
January 17, 2014
Well, I liked the first storyline, Gods. I'm interested to see where the Fenix storyline goes, and I'll like almost anything that focuses on Abe. Not so thrilled with the second storyline, Monsters. It focuses on Liz, which is normally a good thing. And it was kind of nice to see where she'd ended up after King of Fear. But it leaned a bit much on the frogs, which I'm just so over. The dialog wasn't the greatest, and the whole thing felt uncomfortably stereotypical. Not the best.
October 25, 2016
Even though I don't like that there's a character named Fenix. Which I assume is pronounced like the bird with the fire and so on. Or the guy from Gears of War.
I guess she's a teenager, so maybe she named herself that? That sounds like the kind of name I would have given myself. In fact, I remember being in 5th grade, and I had this picture book that was some kind of knockoff Transformers thing (not Go-Bots. It was even of that caliber), and one of the characters was named Max. I thought, "That's a good name. It has an X in it." Seriously that's what I thought.
Little did I know a young go-getter named Max Power would agree with me just a few years later.
I guess she's a teenager, so maybe she named herself that? That sounds like the kind of name I would have given myself. In fact, I remember being in 5th grade, and I had this picture book that was some kind of knockoff Transformers thing (not Go-Bots. It was even of that caliber), and one of the characters was named Max. I thought, "That's a good name. It has an X in it." Seriously that's what I thought.
Little did I know a young go-getter named Max Power would agree with me just a few years later.
February 15, 2014
This collects two short series; one deals with a mysterious girl who is keeping a collection of refugees from the destroyed Texas alive, and the other focuses on Liz trying to make it in civilian life (and failing miserably). Both stories are well told, and go unexpected places, and both capture the sense of a world falling apart, no matter what the BPRD can achieve. It's dark and getting darker, but that's what has always made Mike Mignola's stories interesting, and these definitely achieve that bar.
July 12, 2020
Окей, нові персонажі.
Окей, світові - п*#@ос.
І нарешті це стало не так нудно читати: ми вже знаємо усі проблеми та передісторії персонажів, і вони отримують лише розвиток, а не прокручення опису.
Окей, світові - п*#@ос.
І нарешті це стало не так нудно читати: ми вже знаємо усі проблеми та передісторії персонажів, і вони отримують лише розвиток, а не прокручення опису.
March 13, 2014
Volume 2 of the new series finds the world falling apart as the apocalypse gathers pace. The B.P.R.D. are sent to investigate a girl with psychic powers, a decision that has tragic consequences for one of the team. Meanwhile we catch up with Liz Sherman, missing since the end of King of Fear, as she finds herself caught up with a weird cult.
This is a placeholder review until I can fill in some of the gaps in my reading. The review and the rating may change after a reread.
This is a placeholder review until I can fill in some of the gaps in my reading. The review and the rating may change after a reread.
July 20, 2018
Really, really liked the two stories in this collection. The first (and best) one, named 'Gods', introduces a new major character: 'Fenix'. The B.P.R.D.-team seems to dissolve even more while earth changes more & more into hell.
The second story, 'Monsters', focuses on Liz who's in hiding but that doesn't mean she's free of worries or trouble...
The second story, 'Monsters', focuses on Liz who's in hiding but that doesn't mean she's free of worries or trouble...
October 8, 2019
Two short stories but it felt like filler again
February 15, 2017
Whilst the first half of this volume is good, the second half is a bit slow and takes a dip in the quality of the writing, although the ending is shocking and will have a massive impact on the series.
Guy Davis's art is brilliant as ever and we're introduced to a new artist - Tyler Crook, who looks to be very talented.
Guy Davis's art is brilliant as ever and we're introduced to a new artist - Tyler Crook, who looks to be very talented.
January 22, 2022
No Free Ride Out of Hell
This volume of the B.P.R.D. has two distinct storylines.
The first starts with railroad security having an altercation with a group stowing away on the trains. The stowaways easily outnumber the two security guards. The stowaways head for a deserted football stadium before reinforcements show up. Their leader is a sixteen year old female named Fenix with seeming precognitive abilities.
Flashback to Abe, Kate, and Devon discussing Devon’s issues with Abe. Kate lays it down the law. Devon gets it. If Kate has to make a choice, Devon finishes in second place.
Professor O’Donnell interrupts a B.P.R.D meeting and sheds light on what’s been going on in Texas. It’s happened before. Way back when in Hyperborea. The Prof. never even mentions everyone’s favorite barbarian, Conan.
Back to the football field, Abe and crew show up as do monsters. It’s a monster invasion but the B.P.R.D manage to kill them. Time to celebrate right? Not so much. Fenix shoots Abe.
Time for story two.
Card game at the trailer park. Everyone’s favorite pyrokinetic agent, Liz Sherman, comes back to the trailer and ends the game prematurely. Crazy stuff ensues but maybe not that crazy given the location. One resident points a gun at his “old lady.” Liz arrives and finds the “old lady” with bloody hands and her chopped husband transformed into an altar of candles, bloody graffiti, and severed limbs. That’s not the worst of it – most of the other residents are members of the congregation too.
Bad news for Liz but she manages to escape.
One other big, last panel shocker before we move to Volume Three.
This volume of the B.P.R.D. has two distinct storylines.
The first starts with railroad security having an altercation with a group stowing away on the trains. The stowaways easily outnumber the two security guards. The stowaways head for a deserted football stadium before reinforcements show up. Their leader is a sixteen year old female named Fenix with seeming precognitive abilities.
Flashback to Abe, Kate, and Devon discussing Devon’s issues with Abe. Kate lays it down the law. Devon gets it. If Kate has to make a choice, Devon finishes in second place.
Professor O’Donnell interrupts a B.P.R.D meeting and sheds light on what’s been going on in Texas. It’s happened before. Way back when in Hyperborea. The Prof. never even mentions everyone’s favorite barbarian, Conan.
Back to the football field, Abe and crew show up as do monsters. It’s a monster invasion but the B.P.R.D manage to kill them. Time to celebrate right? Not so much. Fenix shoots Abe.
Time for story two.
Card game at the trailer park. Everyone’s favorite pyrokinetic agent, Liz Sherman, comes back to the trailer and ends the game prematurely. Crazy stuff ensues but maybe not that crazy given the location. One resident points a gun at his “old lady.” Liz arrives and finds the “old lady” with bloody hands and her chopped husband transformed into an altar of candles, bloody graffiti, and severed limbs. That’s not the worst of it – most of the other residents are members of the congregation too.
Bad news for Liz but she manages to escape.
One other big, last panel shocker before we move to Volume Three.
November 6, 2019
There are two main story lines here - in one we follow Liz as she tries to hide from the world by living in trailer park only to find herself in a truly bad spot when frogs start coming in again.
In second story line Abe and BPRD try to find the mysterious girl that seems to be a precog - she is capable of identifying unsafe spots where monsters roam and keep her group safe while traveling to Colorado.
In the background you have lots of other things going on - Devon bickering against Abe because of the events in last volume of Plague of Frogs (Black Flame's speech) and Abe deciding to move on and get away from people like Devon by going to the field and fighting the monsters unleashed during the frog invasion. Also we start seeing various apocalyptic cults rising across the country with the goal to embrace the mutations caused by invasion of frogs.
So all in all great story line. Art is gorgeous as it seems to be the case in general for Hellboy Universe comics.
I am reading this backwards in a way (having read the conclusion arc first .... yay) but quality of story is great. You truly do not lose anything by knowing how things are going to end. Truly excellent story. It reminds me very much of Warhammer story-arc in it that everybody knows how things are going to end but story and events, sacrifices and characters are what keeps you turning just one more page.
Recommended to fans of Hellboy, BPRD and survival horror in general :)
In second story line Abe and BPRD try to find the mysterious girl that seems to be a precog - she is capable of identifying unsafe spots where monsters roam and keep her group safe while traveling to Colorado.
In the background you have lots of other things going on - Devon bickering against Abe because of the events in last volume of Plague of Frogs (Black Flame's speech) and Abe deciding to move on and get away from people like Devon by going to the field and fighting the monsters unleashed during the frog invasion. Also we start seeing various apocalyptic cults rising across the country with the goal to embrace the mutations caused by invasion of frogs.
So all in all great story line. Art is gorgeous as it seems to be the case in general for Hellboy Universe comics.
I am reading this backwards in a way (having read the conclusion arc first .... yay) but quality of story is great. You truly do not lose anything by knowing how things are going to end. Truly excellent story. It reminds me very much of Warhammer story-arc in it that everybody knows how things are going to end but story and events, sacrifices and characters are what keeps you turning just one more page.
Recommended to fans of Hellboy, BPRD and survival horror in general :)
February 28, 2020
I remember this being a major plot twist and a huge dagger to the heart the first time I read this volume. It's rather short but really memorable for (SPOILER ALERT) Abe gets shot in this one and Devon reveals a rather cowardly side of him that makes the reader absolutely hate him. But let me just emphasize that point again: Abe, a character that's been along in the entire saga since the very first Hellboy comic, has been shot badly. And the story isn't even over yet. I was amazed. Of course another major part of this comic is of the soothsayer Fenix. A sort of punk runaway girl that sees the future so she's been gathering a large sort of cult following of young people on the run. She's the one that sees something in Abe and shoots him. Devon sees the crime but purposely doesn't say anything and lets her go. Besides that, the crazy doctor from the BPRD headquarters again revealed a great flashback sequence of a ancient race of people, the Hyperboreans (the cave man guy with the red palm print on his forehead from the previous comics) that are there to stop the ogdru hem from eventually summoning the ogdru jahad. He also explains how the Ogdru hem are finding sneakier yet more effective ways to gain power, greater things are to come that have already been hinted to, especially in the last volume.
June 25, 2020
What a thrill ride. A new character, Fenix, seems to have some sort of psychic prescience. She's able to sense disaster coming and has helped a band of runners (the BPRD agent in charge of briefing called them Bedouins) escape calamity. The BPRD was asked to bring her in. When they attempt to do so something really bad happens.
In the meantime, we find out where one of the major characters has been hiding, and this person is neck deep in BIG trouble. I hate to say this but this comic seems to show the worst in humanity, especially rednecks. I feel sorry for them having to be depicted as such, but then I do know a few rednecks and yes, the amount of alcohol they've imbibed has made them stupid, just like others who drink way too much.
The ending really made me cringe. I am still not recovered from
In the meantime, we find out where one of the major characters has been hiding, and this person is neck deep in BIG trouble. I hate to say this but this comic seems to show the worst in humanity, especially rednecks. I feel sorry for them having to be depicted as such, but then I do know a few rednecks and yes, the amount of alcohol they've imbibed has made them stupid, just like others who drink way too much.
The ending really made me cringe. I am still not recovered from
March 28, 2018
Ah, el Mignolaverso en toda su extensión: Héroes torturados, el deber que llama,Lovecraft en toda su extensión ( ojos,colmillos y tentaculos ) y un infierno que parece no terminar. Daimio vuelve, cansado,escondido, un mounstruo que se aprovecha del dolor de una madre ,un grupo que solo quiere escapar y vivir y la travesía de Liz, que por mas que quiera, no puede estar escondida. El arte de Guy Davis como siempre, macabro y perfecto en sus diseños, con una narrativa impecable que no pide rehenes mientras el relevo de Tyler Crook es muy bueno, aunque uno sabe que llenar los zapatos del sr Davis debe asustar a cualquiera.
July 15, 2024
So I decided to return to the BPRD series and here is the next batch - I will admit that it has a long way to go as the version I have of the Hell on Earth storyline appears to be 15 book long. As you can imagine there is a lot of ground to cover - a lot of characters to revisit - stories to close and I suspect maybe a few characters to kill off (although that has neither happened yet nor would I admit it for spoilers).
So as you can imagine you have the balance of moving the storyline along and not peaking too soon - for me this series has always been able to "pull it out of the bag" with huge events being topped each subsequent instalment - so all I can say is what will happen next
So as you can imagine you have the balance of moving the storyline along and not peaking too soon - for me this series has always been able to "pull it out of the bag" with huge events being topped each subsequent instalment - so all I can say is what will happen next
September 12, 2020
A pair of really strong stories, here that broadens the world-building of Hell on Earth. In “Gods,” we meet the young psychic Felix and her dramatic introduction to Abe Sapien. In “Monsters,” we see what Liz Sherman has been up to since she disappeared. Both stories offer great character studies while also offering more gruesome detail on what it starts to look like when the world realizes that apocalypse is upon it.
March 24, 2017
Trailer trash and a new character to the series, Fenix. I enjoyed the backgrounding story by Professor O'Donnell. There is interpersonal conflicts between Abe and new guy Andrew Devon. Liz Sherman is integral to the story "Monsters". Artwork and story by Mignola, Arcudi, Davis, and Crook are up to their high standard. Read it and get involved in this reality!
June 1, 2019
Similarly, like the previous volume, this one focuses on the individual characters and bring them back into the main storyline. B.P.R.D always felt darker than Hellboy series but this volume seems to continue that trend and make it even darker and hopeless. I'm curious if there will be a turn or if the whole world will end.
October 19, 2022
The « Gods » story in this volume is solid with the classic BPRD art style and story telling. Still building up to something epic more than telling a story but still enjoyable. The « Monsters » story in the volume catches-up to Liz Sherman’s whereabouts. Not really a story but an interlude. Overall this is « so-so » because this second volume still only reads like a prelude to something larger.
August 25, 2025
A teenager who MAY have the ability to see into the future is pursued by Abe and Devon, who just pages earlier agreed to not pester each other about who may or may not be the harbinger of the end times.
Liz lives in a trailer park - I didn’t love this section. Liz feels too harsh and violent, which I could see as a trauma response. They break up a cult.
Liz lives in a trailer park - I didn’t love this section. Liz feels too harsh and violent, which I could see as a trauma response. They break up a cult.
October 24, 2017
Not the best of the series and this series is struggling to find its feet at this early juncture. Mignola normally has a distinct story layout but this wasn't quite the book needed for this second series.
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