Hellboy: The Midnight Circus Author: Visit Amazon's Mike Mignola Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1616552387 | Format: EPUB
Hellboy: The Midnight Circus Description
- Series: Hellboy
- Hardcover: 56 pages
- Publisher: Dark Horse; First Edition edition (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1616552387
- ISBN-13: 978-1616552381
- Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I wonder, at this point, if Mike Mignola could write a bad Hellboy book if he wanted. Seed of Destruction was `94 and we've had about a dozen Hellboy books, a hugely successful spin-off series, BPRD, and numerous other associated titles, assorted Hellboy anthologies, prose novels, and, of course, the superb movies. In other words, in the nearly 20 years since Mignola debuted Hellboy, he's turned a cool random sketch into one of the greatest comic book characters ever inhabiting one of the richest worlds created in comics. He knows Hellboy inside and out and knows exactly what kind of stories suit the character perfectly. So when in this latest book he basically retells Carlo Collodi's world famous novel Pinocchio with a young Hellboy in the lead, he knocks it out of the park, again - were you expecting anything less?
Set in Hellboy's youth, our plucky red hero escapes the BPRD one night and runs away to join the circus. But this is no ordinary circus as he is about to discover. Filled with devils, demons, monsters, and assorted spooky beings, he meets an over-familiar circus master and his feminine friend who show him around their shadowy carnival. As Professor Bruttenholm searches frantically for his young ward, Hellboy enacts the Pinocchio story through a series of magical tents - but who is the circus master really and what does he want with young Hellboy?
In Mignola's hands, Collodi's already unsettling story becomes even more warped and gothic, helped in large part by artist Duncan Fegredo's utterly gorgeous illustrations assisted by award-winning colourist, Dave Stewart .
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