>>83107408
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>>83136030
>>83182184
>>83210005
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>>83307556
Oh shit.
>>83307642
Wait. Will Nimue be the dragon Hellboy rides out of Hell?
>>83307877
So dies Hellboy the Redhanded King
>>83307924
Hell? Did they go to Hell?
>>83307999
One of my favorite HiH images. There's just something so great about it.
>>83307982
>literal mouth of hell
fffff why is hellboy so good
>>83308310
I love the matter-of-fact timestamp on this one.
>>83307883
I love this page so much.
A great ending for my favorite arc of the franchine.
>>83307986
Probably they went away in "the shadows" where the others fairies go.
Ironic, with it being what poor Mr.Pig always tried to avoid.
>>83307467
>>83307405
So, do you guys believe that the beings on the white robes were angels? Or fairies?
>>83308584
How'd he become king anyway. Never understood that part.
I can't handle the amount of poetry in this picture language. Everything's so sublime.
>>83308746
Mike has transcended comics
>>83308624
The guy is descendent of King Arthur. The holly grail choose him many years before, and restored him and all the knights of britain to their former glory.
>>83308774
I got that last part where they got their youth and vigor restored, I just felt out of nowhere that that random old guy was actually the true King of Britain.
>>83308915
Only King for a day actually.
And regarding the white robes, isn't the grail guarded by maidens or something like that?
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>>83308989
This is so beautiful, fuck.
The second half
>>83308882
>>83308931
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>>83309017
Man, Am I the only one who would love to see a little more of how Heaven looks like?
I think that we only got some panels with Edward Grey on Whitchfinder.
How do you think that Heaven looks?
>>83307825
>roger dead
>abe doing irrelevant shit in his comic
niceme.me
>>83308989
The snake. The bride. Always there.
>>83308371
why I've never stopped to appreciate that page is beyond me. Legendary.
>>83309411
hellboy in hell is too funny ehehe
>>83309386
How I didnt noticed it?
>>83309481
When Ed's talking to Hellboy, too:
>>83308825
>>83308814
She's here on Satan too:
>>83308807
>>83309481
The story wasn't published by the time that issue of In Hell came out
>>83309117
I was going to say it'd mirror Dante's version, but then again we've seen how terrifying angels actually look like.
But in my head I imagine architecture that resembles cathedrals, the fanciest banks you've ever seen, the most beautiful mosques (GIS 'inside mosques'), but it's all arranged like an MC Escher painting had sex with Rene Magritte painting.
>>83308705
>nothing at all...
>nothing at all...
>nothing at all...
>>83309728
These watercolor parts, did Mike paint these or were they Dave's under Mike's supervision?
>>83309649
While there are probably the eldritch kind of angel, I dont believe that the ones on the BPRD were actually angels, looked more like some random extra dimensional beings.
>>83308783
I was always kind of hoping Death Riding an Elephant was real, cause I'd put it up on my wall
>>83309891
tfw hellboy's new enemy is existential angst
>>83309935
>Really doctor? Really?
This part always makes me chuckle.
I'd imagine the judge has some pretty whacky powers of his own, if he's merely disappointed in Coppelius's outrage.
>>83309977
>HALIBUT!
My sides! Best warcry ever.
>>83309476
Hey, it's that guy that turned into a monkey and tried to shoot Hellboy but died
Or it could be one of the monkeys that German guy messed with
>>83310075
Another of my favorite moments
Should I wrap it up with The Excorcist of Vorsk or The Spanish Bride? I'll post the desustorage link for the one that you don't need to be storytimed.
>>83309977
HALIBUT!
I love that these comics never get too grimdark
Best sequence Mignola ever did, if you ask me
Perfect
>>83310540
Thanks MKdude!
The limit fucked me over, yet again, so The Exorcist it is
>>83310548
a wee more
>>83310333
I love those tiny little cuttlefish or squids just buzzing around with them.
I hope that in the future assuming there's still a hell, all the skeletons will be in modern clothes. There'll be a guy in a trucker hat, another guy with an ironic t-shirt, some girl in jeggings, etc.
They'll tell ghost stories about this one time there was a crackhead named Fattie Joe who made a deal with a devil for the best high he'd ever get but what he was smoking was the soul of his uptight dad or something.
"How goes it in the world above?"
"Not great."
"Is American Idol still going?"
There you have it. Of course, as promissed, here's the link for The Spanish Bride >>82467542 on desustorage and here is the current thread >>83309979 for the chronological Mignolaverse, storytimed by the madman anon.
This was a blast and I can't describe to you my ambivalence towards the wednesday's final issue. This place is a shithole, but I love each and every Mignola-related thread I've ever been in.
Thanks for reading with me!
what about Hellboy in Hell #9?
>>83310759
Thank you OP.
>>83310784
Image limit, here's the desu link http://desustorage.org/co/thread/82467542
>>83310837
danke
What will happen after Hellboy in Hell?
>>83310962
Mignola takes a break to paint, Abe Sapien concludes, BPRD enters a new arc, Hellboy and BPRD probably continues throughout 50s
>>83310319
That first panel is minimalist perfection.
So much atmosphere in it.
So, how long until the firsts scans of the last issue end up here?
>>83312045
Wednesday
>>83312071
Nice, I can't wait. I'm following Hellboy since the first issue and I have this strange feeling, like the end of an era, a dizziness like the one you get as a kid, walking out of a theatre after a great movie.
I'll but it as soon as the translators do their job.
bump
thanks op
>>83310655
The demon did say he was not a wise man.
>>83308205
I always wondered whether Satan was the mightiest of Watchers or another kind of spirit altogether. Because one nameless watcher create, then imprisoned and cast out Ogdru Jahad, what kind of power could have wielded the Boss himself?
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>>83308540
Same. It's so remarkably Hellboy.
>>83308375
Fucking rekt
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>>83318248
Ah there's the answer - it seems not. Still - he made that Watcher build Pandemonium so he must be no chump.
>>83308608
what is this demon ex machina bullshit
>>83307741
Don't think so. Nimue went to Hell in soul,not in body. I doubt the Ogdru Jahad has the power to turn a disembodied spirit into a dragon.
>>83308774
Wait,so this guy was the direct descendant of King Arthur?! Fuck,I've readt this comic a lot of times and didn't make the connection before.
>>83308584
I'd say fairies,considering the Arthuric context of this,but I dunno.
>>83309524
FUCK, she's been always there!
>>83309782
muhfeels.jpg
Maybe she'll preserve part of Hellboy's spiritin the form of their unborn son, the new Daonian Sidhe/King of Elvesfor the new Race of Men and the New World?
>>83318248
The Watchers fell about ten million years before Satan, so he probably wasn't. Satan and the greater demons seem to belong to another generation of spirits created by God after the creation of the Ogdru Jahad, the death of Anum and the banishment of the Watchers.
The ten million years is a thing, I remember reading it in one of the storytimes. I think it was in "The island".
Well guys, the ride will be over this Wednesday. Are you ready? Because I sincerely don't know if I am.
>>83309223
ayyy it's that page
neat
>>83310488
Poor lil demons
>>83308584
I think they could possibly be the Women in the crystals we see in Frankenstein Underground.
bum
>>83319322
The connection is made when he says his aunties were the ones that attacked the Queen, the witches being related to Hellboy's mom.I think.
Mike Mignola: Why I'm ending Hellboy to go paint watercolors instead
As the final Hellboy comic is published, Mike Mignola discusses how he started, how Hollywood didn’t kill his creation and why he is embracing ‘blur and mush’
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy is one of the most widely praised and visually distinctive comics of the last three decades, spawning two critically acclaimed Guillermo Del Toro movies, several spin-off comic books and assorted paraphernalia from action figures to video games.
Now, the character’s high-contrast, minimalist adventures are concluding with the hero ending his days where he began them: hell itself, where Mignola says he has found unexpected artistic freedom. The final issue ships this Wednesday, 1 June.
Over 22 years writing and drawing Hellboy – the first comic was published in October 1994 – Mignola has won virtually every major award in comics, some of them several times. Now, he says, he wants to narrow his focus still further. Mignola has cleared his schedule so he can take up watercolor painting, which is not a medium he’s used to.
In conversation, Mignola is a good-humored pessimist, his dire expectations perpetually thwarted by what he calls an incredible run of good luck. He still speaks with amazement about being surprised by the best in the midst of preparing for the worst, whether he was creating a spare character in case everyone hated Hellboy or getting green lights for movies he was certain would fall apart.
What made you decide to call it a day?
>Hellboy in Hell, as originally conceived, was radically different than what I ended up doing. My thing of getting him off the world into hell was just so I could do these stories where he rambles around. But even by the end of issue five, I started realizing: “There’s this one big story we’re telling.” I tried to do standalone stories, but I’d had him kill off Satan, which I somehow thought wasn’t going to be a big deal, but the weight of that thing took over the book. So originally it was going to go on forever, and then it was going to be four books, and then I replotted it so it was three … And I guess by the end of issue eight, which is out, he’s sitting under a tree and it just suddenly felt like, “Oh. This is the end of the series.” There’s one big thing he has left to do, or maybe two.
I’ve been surprised at how pleasant hell is, in your comics.
>My version of the real world isn’t all that realistic – there aren’t all that many cars – but I wanted to throw Hellboy into a world that was entirely made of all the things I would draw if I had no job and could just draw whatever I wanted. Those cities, those people, those semi-transparent giant insects, all those sorts of things.
So taking the year to do these paintings is a pretty natural transition. It’s kind of like stripping Hellboy out of it, stripping the storytelling out. That’s one of the things I’m really kind of looking forward to, just saying, “No, it’s a picture of a guy. We don’t have to know who that guy is. It’s a picture of a building. We don’t have to figure out what’s going on in that building.” Really, I’ve never done it.
You’re a painter full-time now?
>Yeah, I’m painting and drawing. I think the drawing in the comic is fine, but none of the drawings get the kind of focus you would be doing if you were just doing a painting or a standalone drawing. Some part of me started saying, “You know, it’s been good that you’ve been able to do some stuff as a cartoonist writing and drawing your own stuff, but you always kind of wanted to be an artist.” And I just don’t think I’ve been doing artwork that’s up to what I could do if I focused all my energies on it.
What do you want to do that you can’t do with that attention divided?
>I just want to see if I can be good at it. I’ve been doing roughly one painting a year. Generally they’ve been commercial – it hasn’t been painting for fun. With repetition, I’d like to think that I’ll get better at it. It’s been at least 25 years since I didn’t have jobs lined up, so the idea of waking up and saying, “What am I going to do new today?” is pretty exciting.
Is gouache your medium now, like your cover paintings for the Hellboy novels?
>The paintings I generally do are a watercolor/gouache combination, so all these harsh, deliberate shapes I do in comics, that becomes blur and mush and transparency and accident. Watercolor is hard to control. At some point you’re putting color on to a wet piece of paper and that color is going to interact with the other colors and it’s going to do stuff with the water, and that’s scary but it’s also exciting. It’s the flipside of doing the really controlled black and white stuff. I’m looking forward to embracing that, and doing pictures of ghosts where there are places where you go, “I don’t know what I’m looking at! Maybe that’s an arm, but there also seems to be ivy there!” You can’t get that in black and white.
Are there plans to do Hellboy in any other media?
>Occasionally there are still some discussions about film or TV, but I’ll believe it when I see it. There’s nothing I can do to make those things happen. I constantly get those people saying, “Are you going to make another movie? Make them do this! Make them do that!” I can’t make them do anything!
Do people go crazy about the property, given how fondly the movies are remembered?
>Every time Ron Perlman does an interview and says, “Let’s do Hellboy 3!” I get bombarded with people who say: “Ron says it’s happening!” Ron has as much power on this thing as I do, which is none. I appreciate that level of enthusiasm, but please don’t anybody ever again talk to me about doing a Kickstarter. We’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars; I don’t see raising it in nickels and dimes. “What do you mean you’re not making a third one? Those movies were so good!” They didn’t make a lot of money, and that’s one of the big things people look for.
>The fact that you got two of them was a miracle. You want $80m to make a movie starring Ron Perlman and it’s called Hellboy! How the hell did that thing ever get made? It shows the power of [Guillermo] del Toro. Back then, he was just a super enthusiastic guy who’d made a couple of pretty funky monster movies. But he was persuasive as hell and he fought like a dog to get these things made.
So you’re happy whether or not there’s a Hellboy 3?
>It’s very good for book sales. I’d love for it to be in some way kind of faithful to the comic, and if it’s a horrific, complete departure, I won’t be thrilled, but you have to make peace with these things. Back when Dark Horse optioned it from me and put it into development, I thought: “This is the greatest scam I’m ever going to run! You’re going to give me money so you can maybe make a movie, but we all know you’re never going to make the movie, so you’re going to pay me money again, for nothing? That’s great!”
>[But] then when they actually made the movie, holy shit. Now it’s scary. When I signed the option deal for Hellboy, being me, I assumed the absolute worst. What if they do make it, and it’s horrible beyond anything I can possibly imagine? It’s going to make Howard the Duck look like Gone With the Wind. I thought: “Oh, no. I’ve just got Hellboy up and running, and this movie could completely sink the name Hellboy forever. There’ll be so much stink on it!” So I made up a new character and everything I had planned to do with Hellboy, I could roll over into this other character.
What was the name of the new character?
>We eventually started doing it as a comic: Joe Golem, Occult Detective. I made up this golem character I was going to do as a comic, and then I was going to do it as a novel, but really it was sitting off to the side, waiting for Hellboy to tank huge. For a long time he was just sitting on the sidelines, as my lifeboat.
And you never got to leap into him.
>No, I didn’t need to! When the movie didn’t destroy Hellboy, I was going to do Joe Golem as a comic, and I was living in New York. Two weeks before I started, I wanted to scout out all the locations and take photos, and I’m looking down 7th Avenue like, “That’s the establishing shot for the first page,” and 9/11 happens. Suddenly the idea of doing a book about a partially sunken New York City in ruins was really unappealing. I go: “Well, you’re going back on the shelf.”
Where did the seed of Hellboy come from originally?
>I’d had a falling out with Marvel and I went to DC. I did a one-issue Batman story that I plotted myself. It was a straight-up Batman supernatural story and I had a lot of fun doing it. It really felt like a turning point. If I can do stories that really reflect me, do I continue to do these stories and try to shoehorn other people’s characters in? Really, if I’m going to make up my own stories, why don’t I make up my own guy?
When will we get to see your paintings?
>If you come by the house, you can see them. I hadn’t given it any thought. Ideally, I’m working on this stuff for a year, and certainly if anything good shows up, I’ll post it on Facebook or I’ll put it on our website, because I’m not one of those guys that’s gonna be content to say, “Oh, they’re just for me,” which is apparently what you hear about [Calvin and Hobbes creator] Bill Watterson – he’s just painting for himself. If I do anything halfway good, I want everybody to see it.
sauce
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/mike-mignola-final-hellboy-comic-paint-watercolors
so now that its practically over, I have to say, I loved the comic, but it has the most obvious, most insane glaring flaw in storytelling.
its all premise, all premise and buildup, the entire run for Hellboy, the comic, is building up the things he's going to do, or try not to do, literally every fucking issue is filled with mysterious people we find out more about later who exposite his destiny at him.
and now here we are, in 1 issue, I expect nothing, no sort of closure or release, the only release Hellboy ever had was fighting Nimue, and it felt like every hellboy fight ever anyways.
so in closing, the only thing I have to say about this abrupt ending is... "Son of A...."
>>83310523
FUCKING LOVE HELLBOY ART