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Hellboy: One-Shots
Helllboy: The Vampire of Prague
Fans of the world's greatest paranormal detective can find two of the best Hellboy stories to date in this set of short stories from _Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others_ and _The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings_, featuring work by comics legends P. Craig Russell and Mike Mignola.
34 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 7, 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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December 26, 2018
This is two short stories:
The Vampire of Prague- which I'd give a 3/5 rating. It was a more light hearted story about a vampire that likes to gamble by playing cards. It has a funny feel to it and was rather cool since I had just been in Prague this past March-walking around the St. Charles Bridge. But, alas, I did not meet any vampires. The artwork is similarly more cartoony, reflecting the lighter tone of the story. Not bad at all.
Dr. Carp's Experiment- 2/5. While by no means terrible-this is a story that could have been fleshed out a bit more. Hellboy gets into some weird stuff inside a haunted mansion. It is an odd one in that the ending is rather nebulous- it leaves you with a what just happened, who fought whom and the ending was rather abrupt. Not terrible-just seemed rushed.
Overall- both these stories make this into a 3 star volume.
The Vampire of Prague- which I'd give a 3/5 rating. It was a more light hearted story about a vampire that likes to gamble by playing cards. It has a funny feel to it and was rather cool since I had just been in Prague this past March-walking around the St. Charles Bridge. But, alas, I did not meet any vampires. The artwork is similarly more cartoony, reflecting the lighter tone of the story. Not bad at all.
Dr. Carp's Experiment- 2/5. While by no means terrible-this is a story that could have been fleshed out a bit more. Hellboy gets into some weird stuff inside a haunted mansion. It is an odd one in that the ending is rather nebulous- it leaves you with a what just happened, who fought whom and the ending was rather abrupt. Not terrible-just seemed rushed.
Overall- both these stories make this into a 3 star volume.
March 8, 2017
The artwork is more cartoonish than usual for a Hellboy tale in The Vampire of Prague. I think it was a deliberate choice to have some fun with it, but it didn't work for me. Thought the other story could have been more coherent.
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