Welcome to the latest Mignolaversity News Update, bring you all the news from the past month. We’ve also got the solicitations for December 2018… It’s going to be a big month!
B.P.R.D.: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW #11
Written by Mike Mignola and Scott Allie
Illustrated by Christopher Mitten and Laurence Campbell
Color by Dave StewartOn sale December 5, 2018
Full color, 32 pages
$3.99
OngoingOne enemy leads to another as the B.P.R.D. finds themselves up against something—and someone—even more sinister than they believed, and Christopher Mitten draws the origin story of one of the B.P.R.D.’s most mysterious foes.
“Everything you would expect from a Mike Mignola comic, being both gritty and exciting. Seeing the return of some familiar faces, as well as a good dose of mystery, the creative team deliver an opening issue that is sure to leave readers new and old returning for more.” —SnapPow
HELLBOY WINTER SPECIAL 2018
Written by Mike Mignola, Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá, and Tonci Zonjic
Illustrated by Ben Stenbeck, Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá, and Tonci Zonjic
Color by Dave Stewart and Tonci ZonjicOn sale December 12, 2018
Full color, 32 pages
$3.99
MiniseriesThree wintery tales featuring a Mike Mignola and Ben Stenbeck team-up. A New Year’s Eve séance goes wrong when Hellboy visits a family’s English home, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá revisit B.P.R.D.: Vampire with a new tie-in story, and Tonci Zonjic returns to write and draw Lobster Johnson.
• Oversize issue with 26 story pages!
JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE
THE DROWNING CITY #4 (of 5)
Written by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Illustrated by Peter Bergting
Color by Michelle MadsenOn sale December 12, 2018
Full color, 32 pages
$3.99
MiniseriesThe occult detective and his unlikely accomplice follow a hunch to a sunken cemetery in search of information about a missing medium, but unknowingly lead their enemies to the same place.
CRIMSON LOTUS #2 (of 5)
Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi
Illustrated by Mindy Lee
Color by Michelle MadsenOn sale December 19, 2018
Full color, 32 pages
$3.99
MiniseriesSecret agent Dai and the man he is protecting take a tumultuous train ride across Japanese-occupied China only to be faced with new allies… and new enemies.
HELLBOY AND THE B.P.R.D.: 1956 #2 (of 5)
Written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson
Illustrated by Yishan Li, Mike Norton, and Michael Avon Oeming
Color by Dave StewartOn sale December 26, 2018
Full color, 32 pages
$3.99
MiniseriesProfessor Bruttenholm sends two agents in opposite directions on off-the-books missions, while the B.P.R.D. loses sight of Hellboy as he wanders through Mexico, and Varvara’s pet projects stir up discontent among her team of occult scientists.
And there’s a pair of trades on the way too…
B.P.R.D.: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW – VOLUME 2:
PANDEMONIUM
Continued belowWritten by Mike Mignola and Scott Allie
Illustrated by Sebastián Fiumara and Laurence Campbell
Colored by Dave StewartOn sale January 23, 2018
Full color, 144 pages
$19.99
TP, 7″ x 10″Hellboy has returned to Earth and reunited with the B.P.R.D. to help lead the push against one demon’s quest to turn New York City into a new Pandemonium.
With the demon Varvara gathering followers from all over the country to do her bidding and create this new Hell on earth, the B.P.R.D. tracks her to New York, where she calls other demons of Hell to her side and transforms her cultists into an army of demons and zombies to take down the agents standing in her way.
The final story in Mike Mignola’s B.P.R.D. epic, The Devil You Know sees longtime characters Hellboy, Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, and others in the final battles to save mankind. Pandemonium collects B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know #6–10.
B.P.R.D.: VAMPIRE
Written by Mike Mignola and Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
Illustrated by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
Colored by Dave StewartOn sale February 27, 2018
Full color, 160 pages
$19.99
TP, 7″ x 10″A vampire-haunted B.P.R.D. agent’s quest for revenge turns into a rampage as he pursues a clan of undead and their gorgon-eyed queen.
This new edition includes the original five-issue series and sketchbook section, plus the new short story from the 2018 Hellboy Winter Special and a new introduction by Bá and Moon.
And now, on to the news…
• The New York Comic Con is is coming up and there’s going to be some big news about the upcoming Hellboy movie. There’s going to be a panel on Main Stage 1D on October 6 from 11 AM to 12 PM. David Harbour (Hellboy), Sasha Lane (Alice Monaghan), Daniel Dae Kim (Benjamin Daimio), Ian McShane (Professor Trevor Bruttenholm), and Mike Mignola will be present.
• Hollywood Soapbox spoke to Michael Avon Oeming about his Abe Sapien work.
• Skelton Crew Studio has two new pins: Abe Sapien and Hellboy.
• Mignolaverse.com interviewed John Salinas, host of the Hellboy Book Club podcast.
• Be sure to check out ArtOfMikeMignola.com later this week. A bunch of new prints will be going up.
• Laurence Campbell’s original “B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know” #10 pages are now available to buy. He’ ll be at Thought Bubble this weekend, so if you’re there be sure to say hi.
• Ben Stenbeck’s been drawing some comissions…
• Duncan Fegredo’s been drawing a bunch of Hellboys…
• Christopher Mitten shared some of his inked pages from “Rasputin: The Voice of the Dragon”.
• And finally, here are some pieces by Stephen Green, Fábio Moon, and Patric Reynolds.
