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Abe Sapien
Abe Sapien, Vol. 5: Sacred Places
Haunted by deaths he's seen and ones he's caused, Abe returns to the place where he was shot, where his latest transformation began. His path is blocked by strange priests, apocalyptic prophets, and one doomed soul after another, who all seem to think Abe is either the answer or the cause.
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First published February 3, 2015
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Mike Mignola
1,865 books2,527 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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August 3, 2015
Wow. WHAT happened?! When did Mike Mignola start churning out such cruddy comics? Is it the demands of putting out so many comics each year for so many titles that’s finally done him in? Is Scott Allie to blame? Either way, I don’t remember disliking Mignola’s books quite this much before, especially not Abe Sapien, my second favourite character in the Hellboy universe. But. Wow. This fifth Abe book is complete and utter shit!
The world has gone to hell and monsters roam the earth. Abe might have something to do with it and he might have something to do with saving everyone. Either way, he’s going to wander about, heading to where he transformed from a man into a fish monster, in the hope of finding… something.
The miserable stories collected in Sacred Places see Abe rescuing Grace, an abused woman who’s lost her family, from a nutjob who’s also the victim of abuse; witnessing a healer attempt to cure the son of a couple who’s slowly transforming into a frog; going fishing in a pool where a woman takes off her limbs to clean them; and fighting wolves in some podunk town. But take my word for it, NOTHING happens in any of them.
I remember when Abe had a personality. It was great! Since his secondary mutation though he’s become a total blank. He’s become a one-dimensional protagonist wandering around even more boring stories than you’d ever imagine reading from Mike Mignola.
Literally the only positive I can think of is Sebastian Fiumara’s art when he draws the wolves attacking Abe - he communicates speed very well in those panels. The ONLY positive! And it’s so small.
I’m sure Abe is going to play a big part in how Hell on Earth comes to a close but seriously guys, if you haven’t got anything for him to do, maybe not publish any more Abe Sapien comics until you do? Because the shockingly poor quality of Sacred Places is making me question whether reading any of the other Hellboy titles is even worth it.
The world has gone to hell and monsters roam the earth. Abe might have something to do with it and he might have something to do with saving everyone. Either way, he’s going to wander about, heading to where he transformed from a man into a fish monster, in the hope of finding… something.
The miserable stories collected in Sacred Places see Abe rescuing Grace, an abused woman who’s lost her family, from a nutjob who’s also the victim of abuse; witnessing a healer attempt to cure the son of a couple who’s slowly transforming into a frog; going fishing in a pool where a woman takes off her limbs to clean them; and fighting wolves in some podunk town. But take my word for it, NOTHING happens in any of them.
I remember when Abe had a personality. It was great! Since his secondary mutation though he’s become a total blank. He’s become a one-dimensional protagonist wandering around even more boring stories than you’d ever imagine reading from Mike Mignola.
Literally the only positive I can think of is Sebastian Fiumara’s art when he draws the wolves attacking Abe - he communicates speed very well in those panels. The ONLY positive! And it’s so small.
I’m sure Abe is going to play a big part in how Hell on Earth comes to a close but seriously guys, if you haven’t got anything for him to do, maybe not publish any more Abe Sapien comics until you do? Because the shockingly poor quality of Sacred Places is making me question whether reading any of the other Hellboy titles is even worth it.
October 2, 2022
So Abe like walks around and stuff. He wants to find out what he is, or what place he has in this new changing world. Is he just another monster? I don't really care. This volume ends without much ever happening. I'm assuming he will eventually hook back up with BPRD.
Probably the single worst book in all of the Darkhorse Hellboy related library.
Does anyone else find it frustrating that we get this title every month but it takes a year to get a new Hellboy issue?
Probably the single worst book in all of the Darkhorse Hellboy related library.
Does anyone else find it frustrating that we get this title every month but it takes a year to get a new Hellboy issue?
June 22, 2016
Despite the great artwork, I didn't enjoy this volume that much. It had its moments but, overall, I feel like Abe has been wandering aimlessly for long enough now. I'm ready for a change in his status quo, to be honest.
It's a shame, as this is the first volume of Abe's solo book I haven't really enjoyed. Maybe the five part story coming next will be better... Still, great artwork.
It's a shame, as this is the first volume of Abe's solo book I haven't really enjoyed. Maybe the five part story coming next will be better... Still, great artwork.
December 15, 2017
The series appears to be foundering. Not much at all happens in this volume. Most of the issues are about characters that just pop in for one issue instead of being about Abe. It's disappointing since Hellboy and B.P.R.D. are so consistently great.
May 25, 2020
4
This volume was slower and had more character moments. I didn't enjoy this as much but it had its moments. Mignola and the artists have done well and they have provided this spin-off with all the high level attention it deserves. If you're not invested in the Hellboy universe, this review will mean very little to you.
Why the 4?
This is one of those plot stretching volumes and repeats some of the previous story beats. I liked it but recycling can grow tiresome. Abe Sapien meets more people who have dark omens, that's the same arc as the previous 2 volumes. The ending is very open ending and where this goes is anyone's guess. Love the series and this is still good but changing it up every once in a while is a good t thing.
This volume was slower and had more character moments. I didn't enjoy this as much but it had its moments. Mignola and the artists have done well and they have provided this spin-off with all the high level attention it deserves. If you're not invested in the Hellboy universe, this review will mean very little to you.
Why the 4?
This is one of those plot stretching volumes and repeats some of the previous story beats. I liked it but recycling can grow tiresome. Abe Sapien meets more people who have dark omens, that's the same arc as the previous 2 volumes. The ending is very open ending and where this goes is anyone's guess. Love the series and this is still good but changing it up every once in a while is a good t thing.
April 17, 2016
Better but still a mess.
This series stared off really well, and I wanted to enjoy this series so much as Abe is a very interesting character, but man the choppy story, the weird pacing and the wandering plot (though intentional) is making it hard for me to love this.
World: I think the art is okay, it's what we expect from the Mignolaverse and the color pallet matches but I really miss Guy Davis' art. It had a level of levity to it to make the terrible things that are going on in this world a bit more bearable. I'm not saying the art is bad, it's not, it's pretty fantastic. But with the doom and gloom of the Mignolaverse right now it would have been nice to get some fresh air. The world building is here, it's choppy and scattered and I'm starting to think this is an Allie issue and not a Mignola issue as there is none of this problem when he writes alone or is writing with Arcudi. There are pieces here and there, the cults and the legend of Abe, but the pieces are scattered and presented too much as a throwaway to fully create a cohesive world for the readers to care about.
Story: This is a long story, and I do like the one and done nature of the stories for each one. They each do have something to tell. I'm seeing this more of a series not so much about Abe but as a really intimate close look at the ground level world after Hell on Earth. It's pretty messed up and there is not a lot of happiness here, just misery. They are interesting stories, but I would have liked a little levity, even in the main series there are moments to make you smirk, here there are none. The tone is just unrelenting. The other issue I have is with Abe and I'll talk about that below. In terms of story, it's good, but not great, fairly forgettable because the world building here is choppy making it very hard to care for the stories being told or giving a readers a sense of direction (which I'm not sure if that's the point of this series...this wandering sense of lost).
Characters: Abe is lost and it's very apparent in this series and I don't mind that (Liz has been lost way longer). It's good in short spurts or as a supporting storyline but with Abe being front and center and when you have a directionless character, the story can get very old very fast and also develop arrested development for Abe. He needs direction and if he doesn't have it then someone in the book needs to so that the book has a point. I want to know more about the mystery of Abe and the cult surrounding him but this is where the world building and the story lets Abe down. There is not enough forward momentum or even a kernel of a trail for Abe to follow. After this and now going to possibly the East Coast, I need Abe to snap out of it now, it's been 4 books, nearly 2 years. The rest of the cast are okay, nothing really stands out and the choppy one and done nature of the story (which I like) does not really lead to much character development in terms of the side characters. I'm very ready for an arc with some development.
I liked the book but it's very choppy and fractured. I know that this is Abe right now, but for a reader it's not a fun read, it's a slog and there needs to be a counterpoint to Abe in the story to drive the narrative and the development. Let's hope the next book will do that.
Onward to the next book!
This series stared off really well, and I wanted to enjoy this series so much as Abe is a very interesting character, but man the choppy story, the weird pacing and the wandering plot (though intentional) is making it hard for me to love this.
World: I think the art is okay, it's what we expect from the Mignolaverse and the color pallet matches but I really miss Guy Davis' art. It had a level of levity to it to make the terrible things that are going on in this world a bit more bearable. I'm not saying the art is bad, it's not, it's pretty fantastic. But with the doom and gloom of the Mignolaverse right now it would have been nice to get some fresh air. The world building is here, it's choppy and scattered and I'm starting to think this is an Allie issue and not a Mignola issue as there is none of this problem when he writes alone or is writing with Arcudi. There are pieces here and there, the cults and the legend of Abe, but the pieces are scattered and presented too much as a throwaway to fully create a cohesive world for the readers to care about.
Story: This is a long story, and I do like the one and done nature of the stories for each one. They each do have something to tell. I'm seeing this more of a series not so much about Abe but as a really intimate close look at the ground level world after Hell on Earth. It's pretty messed up and there is not a lot of happiness here, just misery. They are interesting stories, but I would have liked a little levity, even in the main series there are moments to make you smirk, here there are none. The tone is just unrelenting. The other issue I have is with Abe and I'll talk about that below. In terms of story, it's good, but not great, fairly forgettable because the world building here is choppy making it very hard to care for the stories being told or giving a readers a sense of direction (which I'm not sure if that's the point of this series...this wandering sense of lost).
Characters: Abe is lost and it's very apparent in this series and I don't mind that (Liz has been lost way longer). It's good in short spurts or as a supporting storyline but with Abe being front and center and when you have a directionless character, the story can get very old very fast and also develop arrested development for Abe. He needs direction and if he doesn't have it then someone in the book needs to so that the book has a point. I want to know more about the mystery of Abe and the cult surrounding him but this is where the world building and the story lets Abe down. There is not enough forward momentum or even a kernel of a trail for Abe to follow. After this and now going to possibly the East Coast, I need Abe to snap out of it now, it's been 4 books, nearly 2 years. The rest of the cast are okay, nothing really stands out and the choppy one and done nature of the story (which I like) does not really lead to much character development in terms of the side characters. I'm very ready for an arc with some development.
I liked the book but it's very choppy and fractured. I know that this is Abe right now, but for a reader it's not a fun read, it's a slog and there needs to be a counterpoint to Abe in the story to drive the narrative and the development. Let's hope the next book will do that.
Onward to the next book!
September 27, 2016
I enjoy these books, but it seems like we are trudging through familiar territory, ...
August 7, 2020
Нова героїня, що вже мене бісить через повторне прокручування драми. Єдине, що з нею добре - це візуальна складова тих флешбеків та гра із дзеркальним поверхнями.
Культ Смерті теж крутий, а от повернення до Культу Ейба - тупість, що не варта того нагнітання атмосфери і є тут просто аби закрити чергову сюжетну лінію. Власне, і сам Сапіен потому почуватиметься легше та завалить собі кудись подалі у спокій.
Культ Смерті теж крутий, а от повернення до Культу Ейба - тупість, що не варта того нагнітання атмосфери і є тут просто аби закрити чергову сюжетну лінію. Власне, і сам Сапіен потому почуватиметься легше та завалить собі кудись подалі у спокій.
August 13, 2022
I love and have stated in other reviews, the fact Abe’s story is so distinctly different from Hellboy’s is such a plus for the character.
The despair and gloominess of a world broken apart, whilst he tries to figure out what part he plays in it, is well written and perfectly matched with glorious artwork.
The despair and gloominess of a world broken apart, whilst he tries to figure out what part he plays in it, is well written and perfectly matched with glorious artwork.
June 28, 2022
Thankfully there's at least one interesting story in this volume, a take on "Colour out of space" filtered through Christian evangelism. Still, just wish I cared about Sapien more. In almost every way his arc feels like a less interesting and duller Hellboy redo.
July 7, 2016
Aside from the Santa Muerte stuff/Dayana and the art, I really didn't care for the story in this volume. I think I definitely should have read the BPRD volumes first...
September 20, 2020
Writing: 2.5
Art: 3
Art: 3
January 2, 2022
Grace and Dayana were mildly interesting. But in general this series reads like a rather dull copy-cat of the Walking Dead.
August 27, 2023
C'mon Mike. Give us the goods now. Abe has been wandering long enough I would say.
June 29, 2020
The Garden (1) - 2*
There was barely any of Abe in this story, instead it focused on the horrible backstory of the 2 remaining survivors of . The casual violence and emotional battering the male has to endure while growing up make you pity him, until you realize what he is actually doing with the female. She has gone through even more, so much that I believe she's emotionally and mentally scarred. The content is so hard to read, especially for people with high empathy. Between these drawbacks, it's the lowest rated Hellboy related comic I've read, thus far.
The Healer - 3*
After a torturous set up in the previous story Abe Sapien #12 the story moves slightly faster this time around. The girl Abe rescued is called Grace. She isn't "all there" and is proving very difficult to handle. Abe must have the patience of a saint because I would have left her ass the minute she started getting difficult. But he keeps trying to protect her, as all heroes do. #Respect. They meet up with a couple who are taking their half transformed son for healing. Turns out they've been sedating him with horse tranquilizers. Crude, but effective. They find the healer. Then all hell breaks loose. Overall this was a less emotionally traumatizing and more satisfying conclusion to The Garden.
Visions, Dreams, and Fishin' - 4*
Finally things are starting to happen. Abe's attempts to find out what happened to Grace are met with a wall of cold resistance. He's tried to keep his distance, he's tried asking questions. Both failed, not because of lack of empathy but because Grace REALLY doesn't want to talk about her past. She retorts that Abe should stop running away from HIS past (projecting his needs onto her) and face it instead. The emotional payoff in this issue is much better than the previous 2.
Sacred Places - 4*
Abe returns to the place where Fenix shot him to figure out what could have triggered his second metamorphosis. He runs across not one, but TWO rival cults. Gene, whom they met in New Mexico, is now the leader of a cult that worships Abe. Then a mist wafts out from the hole at the swimming pool where Fenix shot Abe, and all hell breaks loose. They seek shelter with a witch? called Dayana (intriguing character) but all is not well.
This continues the themes of whether the past determines the future, and why should others opinions matter when it is Abe's decision in the end? If only he would man up and go back to the BPRD.
There was barely any of Abe in this story, instead it focused on the horrible backstory of the 2 remaining survivors of . The casual violence and emotional battering the male has to endure while growing up make you pity him, until you realize what he is actually doing with the female. She has gone through even more, so much that I believe she's emotionally and mentally scarred. The content is so hard to read, especially for people with high empathy. Between these drawbacks, it's the lowest rated Hellboy related comic I've read, thus far.
The Healer - 3*
After a torturous set up in the previous story Abe Sapien #12 the story moves slightly faster this time around. The girl Abe rescued is called Grace. She isn't "all there" and is proving very difficult to handle. Abe must have the patience of a saint because I would have left her ass the minute she started getting difficult. But he keeps trying to protect her, as all heroes do. #Respect. They meet up with a couple who are taking their half transformed son for healing. Turns out they've been sedating him with horse tranquilizers. Crude, but effective. They find the healer. Then all hell breaks loose. Overall this was a less emotionally traumatizing and more satisfying conclusion to The Garden.
Visions, Dreams, and Fishin' - 4*
Finally things are starting to happen. Abe's attempts to find out what happened to Grace are met with a wall of cold resistance. He's tried to keep his distance, he's tried asking questions. Both failed, not because of lack of empathy but because Grace REALLY doesn't want to talk about her past. She retorts that Abe should stop running away from HIS past (projecting his needs onto her) and face it instead. The emotional payoff in this issue is much better than the previous 2.
Sacred Places - 4*
Abe returns to the place where Fenix shot him to figure out what could have triggered his second metamorphosis. He runs across not one, but TWO rival cults. Gene, whom they met in New Mexico, is now the leader of a cult that worships Abe. Then a mist wafts out from the hole at the swimming pool where Fenix shot Abe, and all hell breaks loose. They seek shelter with a witch? called Dayana (intriguing character) but all is not well.
This continues the themes of whether the past determines the future, and why should others opinions matter when it is Abe's decision in the end? If only he would man up and go back to the BPRD.
August 5, 2019
Wow, that was bad. I saw the bad reviews and though, nothing is that bad, and I was wrong. These stories must have been written before the events the previous collection, because Abe seemed to be healed in the last volume. But here he is still just a basket case wandering around trying to "help" or "fix" things that are not broken - Abe has a lot of PTSd to work though it seems. All the people in the stories are angry and making all the wrong choices as if trying to get killed. Frankly it is kind of shocking that something this badly written got published, Dark Horse always seemed to be putting out quality content. I guess Hellboy stuff gets less attention before publication.
November 14, 2024
3.5
This volume has such strong potential to be a 5/5 but the dialogue is absolutely abysmal and Scott Allie completely blew it with Grace. There are maybe 2 frames tops in the whole of this 5 book trade that Grace isn’t written as just a traumatized woman in a refrigerator. She has basically less than no agency and she feels more like Abe’s hostage than his ward. Maybe that’s the point but I would expect some sort of development between them or from either of them within the series. The overall plot is still gloom and doom and the art is fantastic, though, so this was still an enjoyable read.
This volume has such strong potential to be a 5/5 but the dialogue is absolutely abysmal and Scott Allie completely blew it with Grace. There are maybe 2 frames tops in the whole of this 5 book trade that Grace isn’t written as just a traumatized woman in a refrigerator. She has basically less than no agency and she feels more like Abe’s hostage than his ward. Maybe that’s the point but I would expect some sort of development between them or from either of them within the series. The overall plot is still gloom and doom and the art is fantastic, though, so this was still an enjoyable read.
December 31, 2024
It's fascinating to watch Abe Sapien, a thoughtful scholar type meets man of action, become an accidental prophet of an increasing sprawl of wasteland. He's still pensive, indeed, but he's also now quite fiery with uncertainty, feeling the heaving weight of closure—or at least a need for answers. He's shorter with his temper and less able to communicate with grace, but as he seemingly shifts into a more unrecognizable creature, there's something more human about him. There is no grander sense of nobility in the apocalypse. There is only human and non-human, and this kicks off with one of the strongest beginnings to an arc that explores and unravels the gray area between.
October 25, 2019
At the end of Volume 4 I thought that Abe had finally made a decision about what he was going to do instead of wondering and being angsty. Well I was wrong he continued to wander around and be angsty in volume 5. I’m giving this title one more volume to do something before I jump ship. If it wasn’t for the art and world building I would have stopped long ago but six volumes of nothing happening will be my limit.
February 27, 2020
The saga of Abe Sapien continues as he travels a ruined world that is finding new ways to cope with the low, grinding fall of man. Abe takes on a charge to protect, encounters cultists of different stripes and encounters some of his old colleagues from the BPRD. It all makes for satisfying, if sullen reading. But the tale of Abe Sapien gets richer with every volume.
August 15, 2017
Abe gets a new travelling companion, the BPRD catch up and Abe continues to say that he is not the saviour.
June 28, 2018
Unclear where this is heading. Feels like covering the same ground a lot.
November 21, 2018
Really, really disappointing... Starts off good but pretty quickly we're up to our necks in the badly written mess we're used to from previous volumes...
January 16, 2024
Time to take a short break from the Abe Sapien series. It's becoming even worse.
February 23, 2017
This was pretty boring to be honest, the stories were thin and didn't seem to have any point apart from stalling the progression of the overall arc. However the art was very good and made up a bit for the lack of story!
February 9, 2015
The recent Abe Sapien books have been some of the best stuff that's coming out of the (consistently excellent) "Mignolaverse" lately, and normally I like books that are basically a bunch of stand-alone short stories better than I like a big overarching plot, but Strange Places didn't come together quite as well for me as the last couple of Abe Sapien books did. Which isn't to say that it's bad--there's some excellent stuff here, and Max and Sebastian Fiumara continue to do fantastic work on art duties, continuing to make the Abe Sapien titles their own in much the same way that Guy Davis did with B.P.R.D. back in the day--but it never quite reached the same heights as Dark & Terrible & the New Race of Man or The Shape of Things to Come.
February 2, 2015
I started to read this book right after I watched the movie Child of God based on Cormac McCarthy's book. I had to watch the movie in fast forward as it made me feel somewhat ill. As a result, I had to set this book aside for a few days because the beginning felt so alike. That said, it really was another great installment in the series. The characterization of Abe's companion was so well written I felt how she grieved and felt haunted.
May 30, 2016
Wow, this is the fifth Volume in this book?
I guess this book started before Abe was shot? I am going to have to look it up, and see what is the case. This was WAY different from Hellboy and the BPRD: Hell on Earth stuff. This is a lot darker and way more somber. Sure, there are dark issues of BPRD hell on Earth, but the majority of the book is quirky over the top apocalyptic stuff.
I like that this is so different from the other two books, it really adds depth to the Mignoliaverse.
I guess this book started before Abe was shot? I am going to have to look it up, and see what is the case. This was WAY different from Hellboy and the BPRD: Hell on Earth stuff. This is a lot darker and way more somber. Sure, there are dark issues of BPRD hell on Earth, but the majority of the book is quirky over the top apocalyptic stuff.
I like that this is so different from the other two books, it really adds depth to the Mignoliaverse.
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