Welcome to 2018! Kickin’ off the year Mignolaversity has an exclusive look at Mike Mignola’s titles coming in April 2018. We’ll also check out all the Mignolaverse-related news from the last month. Also, check in on the site next week as we’ll be talking about what else lies ahead in 2018 and beyond. Now, let’s take a look at the solicitations…
KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS #4 (of 6)
Written by Mike Mignola
Art by Ben Stenbeck
Color by Dave StewartOn sale April 4
Full color, 32 pages
$3.99
MiniseriesAn encounter at a witches’ Sabbath leads Koshchei down a road of betrayal, and in his revenge he comes face to face with the enemy he least expects.
Mignola returns to Hell and to the bizarre folklore that’s filled some of his greatest books, reuniting with one of his favorite collaborators, Ben Stenbeck (Frankenstein Underground, Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels, Baltimore).
There’s also a bunch of collections coming in June…
HELLBOY AND THE B.P.R.D.: 1955
Written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson
Art by Shawn Martinbrough, Brian Churilla, Paolo Rivera (pencils), and Joe Rivera (inks)
Color by Dave StewartOn sale June 6
Full color, 144 pages
$19.99
Trade paperback, 7″ x 10″Hellboy encounters unseen predators, strange cases of spontaneous combustion, and a weapon at an Air Force base that is more than it seems.
This volume collects Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955—Secret Nature, Occult Intelligence #1–#3, Burning Season, and bonus material!
“A story smoothly presenting characters and problems combined with visuals that create an authentic and fanciful past make this perfect reading.” —SciFiPulse
HELLBOY
—OMNIBUS EDITION – VOLUME 2—
STRANGE PLACES
Written by Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni
Art by Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni, and Richard Corben
Color by Dave StewartOn sale June 20
Full color, 416 pages
$24.99
Trade paperback, 7″ x 10″The four-volume Hellboy Omnibus series along with the two volumes of The Complete Short Stories collect all of Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience.
This 416-page volume covers Hellboy’s adventures from 1998 to 2005, reprinting Conqueror Worm, Strange Places, Into the Silent Sea, and “The Right Hand of Doom,” “Box Full of Evil,” and “Being Human” from The Right Hand of Doom and B.P.R.D.: Being Human.
HELLBOY: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES
—OMNIBUS EDITION – VOLUME 1—
Written by Mike Mignola and John Byrne
Art by Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Duncan Fegredo, Mick McMahon, Gabriel Bá, and Fábio Moon
Color by Dave Stewart, Matt Hollingsworth, and James SinclairOn sale June 20
Full color, 368 pages
$24.99
Trade paperback, 7″ x 10″In 1994 Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse. Before that, he’d spent fifty years fighting monsters as a somewhat carefree member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The Complete Short Stories volumes 1 & 2 present those early adventures.
“The Crooked Man” and “Double Feature of Evil,” both of which earned Mignola and his legendary collaborator Richard Corben Eisner Awards, are collected with the complete “Hellboy in Mexico” saga, featuring collaborations with Corben, Mick McMahon, Gabriel Bá, and Fábio Moon, as well as one of Mignola’s early masterpiece, “The Corpse.”
This 368-page volume covers Hellboy’s adventures from 1947 to 1961.
That’s it for solicitations. On to the news!
• We revealed Skelton Crew Studios’ “itty bitty Hellboy” mini-bust. It’s available for preorder now.
• “B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know” #5 was a major game changer. If you haven’t read it yet, tread carefully—there are spoilers out there. Until the trade paperback release of the story on April 11, we’re not going to be mentioning the spoiler at all on Mignolaversity except for our “B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know” #5 review. We won’t be linking to news articles containing mentions of the spoiler either without a spoiler warning, so if you are a trade reader Multiversity Comics is going to do its best to preserve the reveal for you. If you know the spoiler, please help us out and avoid mentioning it in the comments. Thank you in advance for being awesome. Here’s Mignola’s statement on the matter:
Continued belowThe reveal at the end of issue five was planned years ago and I sincerely hope it catches readers by surprise. The internet being what it is, it’s not easy to keep secrets these days, but I’m hopeful fans will help us out and keep a lid on things for awhile, until more people have had a chance to read the comic.
• You may have noticed, but 2017 has ended. Near the end of the year we did all kinds of retrospective and best-of-2017 pieces, including a look back at the Mignola’s works in a 4-part interview. If you missed them, check them out:
—Part 1: “Hellboy”
—Part 2: “B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know” & “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.”
—Part 3: The Expanding Hellboy Universe
—Part 4: Beyond the Hellboy Universe
• We also talked to artist Patric Reynolds about his process on “Joe Golem, Occult Detective.”
• “Koshchei the Deathless” written by Mike Mignola with art by Ben Stenbeck comes out tomorrow and it’s a damn good book. Stenbeck spoke a little about it with Previews World.
• And Adam Hughes spoke to Comics Beat, 13th Dimension, Freak Sugar, Comicon, Newsarama, and Impulse Gamer about Hellboy: Krampusnacht.
