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. Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries. 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. While the first story line ( Seed of Destruction, 1994) was co-written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself. 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. In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps Comics. 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 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. 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.
We get a crazy battle with large explosions and many spent shell casings followed by a bunch of confused American soldiers trying to figure out what to do with a giant robot, which may or may not be a man.Mike Mignola was born Septemin Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland. If you like big robots, and WW2, you’re bound to dig the visuals.Īs for the writin’, what little of it there is intriguing. The art by Latour is great for robot enthusiasts. Air support drops what appears to be a bomb, but is actually…you guessed it…Sledge-Hammer. It’s France, in 1944, and we are with the U.S. Okay, I swear, that was the last reference. Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, with art by Jason Latour, color by “Devious” Dave Stewart (no one actually calls him that) and music by Peter Gabriel. As Sledge-Hammer annihilates dudes.Īnyway, getting back to an actual critique of the work.
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