Hellboy

• Title: Hellboy: The Bones of Giants #1 (of 4)
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• Writers: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
• Artist: Matt Smith

The four-issue mini-series adaptation of Hellboy: The Bones of Giants begins here with Hellboy and Abe Sapien sent to Sweden to investigate the discovery of what appears to be the smoking skeletal remains of the Norse God Thor. After picking up the hammer, Hellboy witnesses odd visions and becomes temporarily possessed. Even after regaining his senses, Hellboy is incapable of laying the hammer down and still seems mentally connected to the hammer’s pull leading the group to a cave in the mountains which has recently been disturbed.

Looking for help on the unusual situation Professor Edmond Aickman who isn’t exactly pleased to see Hellboy even decades after their previous encounter involving King Vold, but he is initially quite curious about the hammer although something concerns him enough to flee in the dead of the night. Just what has Hellboy stumbled into this time?

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• Title: Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club #1 (of 5)
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• Writers: Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson
• Artists: Ben Stenbeck, Christopher Mitten

Set in 50s London, The Silver Lantern Club #1 introduces Hellboy to Trevor’s uncle Simon Bruttenholm who has stories aplenty to tell of his spooky former adventures with a secret British paranormal society known as the Silver Lantern Club. Most of the issue takes place in flashbacks of Simon recounting his tale how an early wireless transceiver which trapped a demonic creature recently exorcised by members of the club.

Even if the adventure itself doesn’t feature Hellboy, and we get the titular character only in the bookends to the flashback, there’s still some fun to be had (especially in the manner which the demon was defeated, which I won’t ruin here).  Since it appears Simon has more stories to tell, at least until the pub’s last call, this is just the start of the mini-series.

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• Title: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House #1 (of 2)
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• Writers: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
• Artist: Shawn McManus

The first issue of the two-issue tales takes us back to 1983 where Hellboy and Madame Zemperelli work together to investigate a haunted mansion for the B.P.R.D. Along for the ride are Carter Stroud (the great-great-grandson of the mansion’s builder who was known for wild orgies and the disappearance of his 16 year-old daughter before cutting off his own head and jumping into the fireplace) and Carter’s fiancé Serena Wilkins (neither of whom believe the house to be actually haunted).

The séance confirms the house is indeed haunted not by one ghost but at least two as the gossip about the mansion’s hauntings are proved true.

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