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Frankenstein: New World - The Sea of Forever
Frankenstein and the young Lilja navigate the world above ground to follow Lilja’s vision, but an ancient and familiar evil follows them wherever they go.
The world above appears transformed, but old evil is hiding behind a new mask.
In the follow-up to Hellboy and B.P.R.D., Frankenstein and young Lilja travel across the transformed world to follow a prophetic vision. Along the way, they befriend mysterious people and fight monstrous creatures, all while navigating the metamorphosized natural world above. But the path set by her vision is not clear and easy, and there will be both legendary enemies from Hellboy’s history and new horrifying foes that will try to stop them.
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, and Peter Bergting return to the New World that Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. gave their lives to save.
Collects Frankenstein: New World – The Sea of Forever #1–#4 with sketchbook material.
The world above appears transformed, but old evil is hiding behind a new mask.
In the follow-up to Hellboy and B.P.R.D., Frankenstein and young Lilja travel across the transformed world to follow a prophetic vision. Along the way, they befriend mysterious people and fight monstrous creatures, all while navigating the metamorphosized natural world above. But the path set by her vision is not clear and easy, and there will be both legendary enemies from Hellboy’s history and new horrifying foes that will try to stop them.
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, and Peter Bergting return to the New World that Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. gave their lives to save.
Collects Frankenstein: New World – The Sea of Forever #1–#4 with sketchbook material.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published November 11, 2025
About the author
Mike Mignola
1,836 books2,573 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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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
February 1, 2026
Cool Worldbuilding to continue the events after Hellboy. Unfortunately, the story and characters aren’t interesting enough to warrant me to delve into the lore of this new world. Frankstein or Lilia are very flat characters, with goals as dry as the wall in those plain rich materialistic mansions. There was some cool moments with the philosophy of the world being reborn everytime it dies, plus seeing different cultures in animals was a neat bit of world building. Seeing one of Hellboy’s villians and him again in a dream was awesome. Otherwise, very boring. Will say, I am interested in Murk, he was easily the best part of the whole comic. Art was pretty good, not the best Hellboy has been (not even close). Still the most consistent enjoyable thing about this book that kept me reading.
Mignola miss 🥀. MID. 4/10
Mignola miss 🥀. MID. 4/10
April 13, 2026
Frankenstein and his young companion Lilja set out to find the avatar of vril energy (I assume that's what she is) before the Murk. Along the way they make friends, encounter the malevolent Bog Roosh and her sister and the Murk, hungry to eat all vril, follows in their wake. Good, and I love the origin for the Murk.
January 4, 2026
A placeholder issue keeping us from enjoying the story teased in Frankenstein: New World
March 13, 2026
Such promise, but for a story that takes place in the sea, it lacks the necessary depth. Just a hodge-podge of cool references to classic Hellboy stories and lore.
March 18, 2026
Part 2 of this new storyline, and it wraps up a lingering storyline or two along the way. the simple discourse on evil in nature was intriguing.
February 18, 2026
Okay, I get it. I was amused by the treatment of vampires in the Ogdhru Jahad armageddon, but now I see what's going on. They just come back to imflict evil in the new world. The Bog Roosh story missed me a bit, but I get what they were aiming for.
February 1, 2026
I like that Mignola is writing stories set after the world ended in BPRD. Kind of fun to see the series go straight on into sci-fi fantasy.
I'm not really sure where any of this is headed, but this comic was enjoyable on its on terms.
I'm not really sure where any of this is headed, but this comic was enjoyable on its on terms.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews