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Hellboy and The BPRD: The Goddess of Manhattan [Dramatized Adaptation]
1 pages, MP3 CD
Published September 10, 2024
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Christopher Golden
805 books3,004 followersCHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Road of Bones, Ararat, Snowblind, Of Saints and Shadows, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Seize the Night, Dark Cities, and The New Dead, among others, and he has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. Golden co-hosts the podcast Defenders Dialogue with horror author Brian Keene. In 2015 he founded the popular Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His work has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the Eisner Award, and multiple Shirley Jackson Awards. For the Bram Stoker Awards, Golden has been nominated ten times in eight different categories. His original novels have been published in more than fifteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com
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September 29, 2024
I liked GraphicAudio's first venture into Hellboy, and found the Lobster spinoff to be OK. This story, however, lost a lot of steam and had too many repeated lines for my liking.
There is an old lady character, and I like her a lot. Unfortunately, her monologues really lack substance. She is sassy, uses her grand age to get to places, and believes all the monster stuff. The cops of New York are her foil, as they always want to take the bullet-studded path, and they always fail. Her wins the day. But she gets a lot of screentime, or in this case, mic-time. Her reminiscing about old days speaks of how women weren't allow here and there, black folks got no respect, old folks are people too, etc. This ends up grading; most of the time, this doesn't tie back to the plot. I wish these rants were only used to demonstrate the differences between what she would do as a young woman vs what she can do now.
As another example: Hellboy joking about Liz's date was entertaining, though this gets old by the end, as well, because it's repeated with no development at all.
There is a monster ring-leader who turns good at the end, and her dialogue gets repetitive and grading as well because her pontifications about being a mind-controller aquatic lizard woman takes up a lot of time, with no conflict of the heart to keep us interested. The plot mostly being repetitions was generally bad. I wish the characters mistrusted one another more, had their own agendas, even some in-fighting between the heroes would have been better drama.
There is an old lady character, and I like her a lot. Unfortunately, her monologues really lack substance. She is sassy, uses her grand age to get to places, and believes all the monster stuff. The cops of New York are her foil, as they always want to take the bullet-studded path, and they always fail. Her wins the day. But she gets a lot of screentime, or in this case, mic-time. Her reminiscing about old days speaks of how women weren't allow here and there, black folks got no respect, old folks are people too, etc. This ends up grading; most of the time, this doesn't tie back to the plot. I wish these rants were only used to demonstrate the differences between what she would do as a young woman vs what she can do now.
As another example: Hellboy joking about Liz's date was entertaining, though this gets old by the end, as well, because it's repeated with no development at all.
There is a monster ring-leader who turns good at the end, and her dialogue gets repetitive and grading as well because her pontifications about being a mind-controller aquatic lizard woman takes up a lot of time, with no conflict of the heart to keep us interested. The plot mostly being repetitions was generally bad. I wish the characters mistrusted one another more, had their own agendas, even some in-fighting between the heroes would have been better drama.
July 23, 2025
Great production values and a solid cast keep this audiobook moving along at a nice pace. I didn't find the story particularly memorable, which, given the audio only nature of this project, didn't grab me too hard. Mignola's artwork is such a crucial facet of Hellboy for me that I struggle to embrace these sorts of offshoots. I don't think it's bad by any stretch, it's just something I think you could skip and not miss anything earth shattering.
September 17, 2024
good, not great. rounded up from 3 1/2. will never complain about more Hellboy (in any medium)
September 24, 2024
wow.
So good.
Very Neverwhere but also the Mignolaverse.
Loved it.
So good.
Very Neverwhere but also the Mignolaverse.
Loved it.
January 1, 2025
review to come
Love Hellboy and this one has Liz and Abe. Set in the 1990’s with a goddess coming back to take over the surface that Lobster Johnson and his crew had defeated in the past. Good quips and great cast made me miss that we didn’t get more Del Toro Hellboy films.
Love Hellboy and this one has Liz and Abe. Set in the 1990’s with a goddess coming back to take over the surface that Lobster Johnson and his crew had defeated in the past. Good quips and great cast made me miss that we didn’t get more Del Toro Hellboy films.
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