Apparently it’s Hellboy day and I didn’t even know it. It starts with Ron Perlman dressed as Hellboy, moves into a new BPRD mini, and now the biggest news of all: Hellboy is finally returning.
The long-awaited “Hellboy in Hell” will debut in December from Dark Horse Comics, as CBR has revealed. Written and illustrated by Mike Mignola, the book is slated as an ongoing with no re-numbering, but it will start with just four issues under the new “Hellboy in Hell” banner. Hell itself will be reflective of the famous iteration of Hell by John Milton in Paradise Lost, and Hellboy will find himself brought away from all the grand quests and prophecies that have been weighing his life down as Mignola attempts to turn him into a “simpler” character.
As Mignola explains in the CBR interview,
One of the things I keep pushing against is turning it into something like that. I don’t want to do Hellboy on a mission or Hellboy on a quest. What I’m trying to do is take all these big things that have been attached to Hellboy — all these “purpose in life” ideas — and I’m trying like hell to leave them aside and turn Hellboy into a much simpler character. The first four issues, which are one story, kind of resolve a lot of stuff. Kind of. They set the stage for the stories to come after, which for the most part involve lots of one-issue stories or even single comics with two stories. So he doesn’t have a specific purpose. He’s just going to wander around Hell.
For the full Mignola interview, check CBR, and be sure to get yourself a copy of “Hellboy in hell” in December.
