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Hellboy (Ongoing Order) #21
Hellboy: The Third Wish #1
Hellboy leaves behind the familiar strangeness of the B.P.R.D. for even stranger places. He meets a two-hundred-year-old witch doctor and talks to lions, but that's only the beginning of Hellboy's weirdest journey yet. Mike Mignola takes his most celebrated creation from Africa to the bottom of the sea, in the next stage of a very unusual life.
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30 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 7, 2015
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About the author
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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April 9, 2021
"Anansi, la araña, una vez Atrapó a una pitón, un hada, un leopardo y un avispón y se los cambio al Dios del cielo por todas sus historias...La araña solía hacer sus telarañas en mi oreja y me contaba historias.Una de las historias era sobre ti...Hellboy. Así que por mucho tiempo supe que vendrías y cuando y donde encontrarte"
"Ahora estas parado en la mismísima encrucijada de tu vida. Y todos los caminos te llevan a lugares extraños"
Esta vez la aventura nos lleva hasta áfrica. Donde Hellboy Se encuentra con un antiguo hechicero. Los Leones ofician de interlocutores y le hacen una advertencia/ amenaza.
Recibe el llamado del océano. Donde posteriormente se sumergirá en aguas inexploradas, un lugar que excede al cielo el infierno.
"Ahora estas parado en la mismísima encrucijada de tu vida. Y todos los caminos te llevan a lugares extraños"
Esta vez la aventura nos lleva hasta áfrica. Donde Hellboy Se encuentra con un antiguo hechicero. Los Leones ofician de interlocutores y le hacen una advertencia/ amenaza.
Recibe el llamado del océano. Donde posteriormente se sumergirá en aguas inexploradas, un lugar que excede al cielo el infierno.
January 6, 2019
This is truly amazing! So dark, so mournful and so simple
June 29, 2025
This story is directly into the main storyline off Hellboy. Related to his destiny and the great doom of the world he is supposed to set.
It starts with Hellboy meeting a very powerful Witch-Doctor Mohlomi in his travel accros Africa. Turns out that the Doctor not only know who he is but how important he is and he is directly meant to be the one who guide him accros the next step of his destiny.
After saving him from an attack by the African god's/spirits of the Astral plane (who wanted Hellboy gone from their land forever, due to who or rather what he is) the apparently not so benevolent doctor set him into the shores of the sea in which he is brought down below by 3 sirens sisters to "The Bog"
The Bog is an extremely poweful witch which can among other things see glimses of the future. She is a humanoid gigantic fish-like monstruous creature who gains her powers via the souls of death sailors.
After restraining Hellboy with cursed chains from the essence of one of Hellboy ancien foes due to his hate being so strong that it remained after death , the bog "repaid"the sisters by granting them their wishes.
As typical in the Hellboy verse myth and folklore inspiration, the morals and the consequences of playing with things you don't control are omnipresent. As expected the two sisters with greedy wishes die's by being tricked by their own words(typical in folklore) while the only one pure sister with a ethical wish get her way and hesitantly go... Can she really leave with the shame of sacrifing Hellboy ?
Hellboy totally nonchalent and stoic attitude in front of such overwhelming odds as always are the icing on the cake of this story.
It starts with Hellboy meeting a very powerful Witch-Doctor Mohlomi in his travel accros Africa. Turns out that the Doctor not only know who he is but how important he is and he is directly meant to be the one who guide him accros the next step of his destiny.
After saving him from an attack by the African god's/spirits of the Astral plane (who wanted Hellboy gone from their land forever, due to who or rather what he is) the apparently not so benevolent doctor set him into the shores of the sea in which he is brought down below by 3 sirens sisters to "The Bog"
The Bog is an extremely poweful witch which can among other things see glimses of the future. She is a humanoid gigantic fish-like monstruous creature who gains her powers via the souls of death sailors.
After restraining Hellboy with cursed chains from the essence of one of Hellboy ancien foes due to his hate being so strong that it remained after death , the bog "repaid"the sisters by granting them their wishes.
As typical in the Hellboy verse myth and folklore inspiration, the morals and the consequences of playing with things you don't control are omnipresent. As expected the two sisters with greedy wishes die's by being tricked by their own words(typical in folklore) while the only one pure sister with a ethical wish get her way and hesitantly go... Can she really leave with the shame of sacrifing Hellboy ?
Hellboy totally nonchalent and stoic attitude in front of such overwhelming odds as always are the icing on the cake of this story.
December 27, 2024
Mermaids! A+
March 17, 2025
Interesante. Creo cada vez firmemente que Hellboy es un personaje "blank slate", pero me sigue gustando.
December 30, 2017
Great stuff.
Take care what you wish for. You might just get it.
I'm a huge fan of Mignola's work, and this little side miniseries is one of the better ones.
Take care what you wish for. You might just get it.
I'm a huge fan of Mignola's work, and this little side miniseries is one of the better ones.
February 16, 2017
Interesting premise. I knew that every time Hellboy complained about mermaids kidnapping him I was missing something, and now I have found it.
I like that Hellboy gets to make his case here for what constitutes good, but the savage betrayal of her granddaughters by the Bog Roosh makes the case as well.
I like that Hellboy gets to make his case here for what constitutes good, but the savage betrayal of her granddaughters by the Bog Roosh makes the case as well.
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