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Dark Horse Announces “Hellboy: The Bones of Giants” Adaptation

By | August 18th, 2021
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Cover by Matt Smith

Via io9, Dark Horse Comics have announced “Hellboy: The Bones of Giants,” a four-issue adaptation of the 2001 prose novel by Christopher Golden. Mike Mignola and Golden himself will co-write the series, which will have art by Matt Smith, coloring by Chris O’Halloran, and lettering by Clem Robins. Set in Sweden, the book will see Hellboy and Abe Sapien investigate the appearance of Thor’s hammer Mjolnir, and Hellboy becoming bonded with the weapon, which he’ll need to fight against Thrym the Hollow, the newly resurrected King of the Frost Giants.

Golden said in a statement to io9, “Back in the fifth grade, I discovered a collection of retellings of Norse myths in my school library. Thunder of the Gods by Dorothy Hosford profoundly changed me. I think I read it 15 times, falling in love with so many characters and their adventures. Those stories are part of my creative DNA. Twenty years ago, Mike Mignola and I were talking about me doing a second Hellboy novel, and he described the opening scene to me in the kind of wonderful detail that’s so common for him when he’s envisioned something in his head. I knew instantly that I was going to have some of the most fun I’d ever have writing anything.”

According to Golden, it was Matt Smith who suggested turning the novel into a comic. “When Mike told me that the brilliant Matt Smith wanted to adapt the novel into comics, and I found out what a massive Norse mythology nerd Matt was, I was excited all over again,” he said. “Wait until you see what Matt has done with this story. Hellboy with Mjollnir welded to his hand? Who doesn’t want to see that?”

Mignola added, “Matt Smith’s ‘Barbarian Lord’ is one of my favorite contemporary comics. It’s awfully hard to imagine an artist who is a better fit than Matt to draw ‘Hellboy: The Bones of Giants,’ with its mix of Norse mythology and action-packed drama.”

“Hellboy: The Bones of Giants” #1 will be released on November 3. Until then, keep an eye out for our upcoming interview with Golden and Smith on the project.


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