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Hellboy (Ongoing Order) #9
Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3
In Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3, the devil awakens! Hellboy finds the coffin of Vladimir Giurescu just in time to see the two-hundred-year-old vampire rise from a fifty-year sleep. Outside Castle Giurescu, Rasputin initiates a new servant from the ranks of his old Nazi cohorts, and an unlucky group of Bureau agents wakes up something completely unexpected. The suspense of Wake the Devil continues to rise in this heart-pounding miniseries by fan favorite Mike Mignola!
25 pages, Kindle Edition
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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July 28, 2024
And what a human life it was. The crude Siberian peasant, stinking of drink and sexual excess, crying out to God: give me answers!
What is this power inside me? Where does it come from? Whom does it serve?
But God was silent to me. I could heal the sick with my bare hands, but I could not hear his voice. Why? I might have lost myself in my sins, but then she found me.
The Baba Yaga. The great witch whose chicken-leg house I had seen so often in my boyhood dreams, she explained that the fates had chosen me to be their agent of change, father of a new millennium. I gave her one half of my soul, which she hid in the roots of Yggdrasil, the world tree, so that my spirit, at least, would always be safe.
Then, foolishly believing that this new millennium would come through political action, I secured for my- self a position of influence in the Russian royal family... And waited for a sign. It came on December 16, 1916, when my friend Felix Yusupov shot me in the back. He and his cohorts did their best to murder me, finally throwing me into the frozen Neva river. But i didn't find death there... I found the dragon. I found my answers and my purpose.
I Grigori Efimovich Rasputin was reborn in chros.
Having enjoyed the 2024 free-comic-book-day one-shot, I found myself in a Hellboy mood. With Amazon offering me a free trial of Kindle Unlimited, and with the Hellboy single issues being included, it felt rude not to start from the beginning.
Following the two one-shot stories, we now move onto the next story arc, which reunites us with Nazis, project Ragna Rok, the full B.R.P.D. team, and a potential unstoppable evil that will test them to the limits.
Hunting vampires and confronting Sirens, Hellboy is up to his neck in it once again. The story is split between Hellboy, the other B.R.P.D. teams, and the Nazi scientists, which means it jumps around a lot. It is clearly setting things up for a wider story and future issues. Overall 4 stars.
What is this power inside me? Where does it come from? Whom does it serve?
But God was silent to me. I could heal the sick with my bare hands, but I could not hear his voice. Why? I might have lost myself in my sins, but then she found me.
The Baba Yaga. The great witch whose chicken-leg house I had seen so often in my boyhood dreams, she explained that the fates had chosen me to be their agent of change, father of a new millennium. I gave her one half of my soul, which she hid in the roots of Yggdrasil, the world tree, so that my spirit, at least, would always be safe.
Then, foolishly believing that this new millennium would come through political action, I secured for my- self a position of influence in the Russian royal family... And waited for a sign. It came on December 16, 1916, when my friend Felix Yusupov shot me in the back. He and his cohorts did their best to murder me, finally throwing me into the frozen Neva river. But i didn't find death there... I found the dragon. I found my answers and my purpose.
I Grigori Efimovich Rasputin was reborn in chros.
Having enjoyed the 2024 free-comic-book-day one-shot, I found myself in a Hellboy mood. With Amazon offering me a free trial of Kindle Unlimited, and with the Hellboy single issues being included, it felt rude not to start from the beginning.
Following the two one-shot stories, we now move onto the next story arc, which reunites us with Nazis, project Ragna Rok, the full B.R.P.D. team, and a potential unstoppable evil that will test them to the limits.
Hunting vampires and confronting Sirens, Hellboy is up to his neck in it once again. The story is split between Hellboy, the other B.R.P.D. teams, and the Nazi scientists, which means it jumps around a lot. It is clearly setting things up for a wider story and future issues. Overall 4 stars.
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