Time for more Chronological Mignolaverse!!! Previous threads

>>92173440
How is she the only BPRD agent that ever buckled down and learned some fucking magic.

>Be useful? Nah, I'm just gonna get some goggles and hang with Howards.

>>92173575
That's not true, that one agent learned how to banish demons with the talisman he got from Hellboy during The Return of the Master

>>92173575
He didn't learn shit. He got a magic talisman that he knew to throw at evil spirits. Strode just got done rattling off some incantation to fight on the spiritual plain while using her real body to mark out the the demons sigil. That chick has been STUDYING since her time with the old man.

>>92173759
>I hunger
OH FUCK IT'S SINISTAR

>>92173257
great, it's the worst story arc to ever grace BPRD

fucking roberson

>>92173725
Wait, they just let her go? It seemed like they were still right pissed and ready to fight again.

>>92173894
>not the latest issues where everyone goes out like a bitch
>not the latest issues where they just do the same thing over and over again, and then suddenly a magical solution
I know it's the essence of Hellboy, but it just felt like they were buying time with issues upon issues of them getting knocked back on their asses in the same way.

>>92173939
She's got a gun and doesn't really care about them.

>>92173846
meant for >>92173672

>>92173894
This isnt the one that followed Fenix.

>>92173999
Is she invoking a Hindu goddess?

It really bothers me how much this character talks to themselves.

>>92174164
Gotta narrate somehow.

>>92174183
Oh come on, how unaware do you have to be not expect there to be a bunch of kids skeletons in the well of a house where kids were lured too for YEARS to be killed

>>92174202
Three quarters of the "narration" is unnecessary, killing both the pacing and the mood, that aside thought bubbles or narration boxes would've accomplished the same thing.

>>92173951
Everyone going out like a bitch is kind of the thing towards the end (Hell on Earth, after all), but I guess Arcudi deciding to leave also had something to do with it.

>they just do the same thing over and over again, and then suddenly a magical solution

This was pretty shitty though. Especially how Johann saving BPRD out of nowhere. He had been studying the Sledgehammer suit, but suddenly in that specific arc the Headquarters is under heavy attack and is unable to repel? Come on.

Nothing, absolutely nothing can be worse than Roberson's crap though.

>>92173695
>I seriously hope you don't worship demons.

>>92174164
I mean, it's a narrative device; also she has nobody else to talk to, you'd probably start chatting at the air too if left alone to do exorcism work through the apocalypse.

>>92174235
OP here, posting from my phone.
Again, much like most of the named demons Balam is an actual demon from the Ars Goetia and that's his actual sigil used as well.
https://archive.org/stream/ac_goetia#page/n41/mode/1up/search/Balam

>>92174498
Why does he keep changing his face?

>>92174807
Balam is the 51st spirit of Hell. He appears with three heads; the first is that of a bull, the second that of a man and the third is that of a Ram. He is a great and terrible king and he knows the answers to all things past, present and to come.

>>92174944
>answers to all things past, present to come
Don't they all? Doesn't he know where I can find gold too?

>>92175025
No, they all have different specialities. Balam would be mostly used to know the actual truth of what happened, is happening or will happen. Gamori knows where treasure is buried and how to seduce women of any age but she wouldn't know the true events of the past.

This art shift is making me think I'm reading something from the graphic novel section of a school library.

>>92175339
Honest to god I'd fire whoever designed those uniforms

OP, do you have a mega for all this material?

>>92175566
I'll post it in the final thread.

>>92175587
Bless your soul man.

>>92173523
I miss when women could be heterosexual in comics.

>>92175667
Ashley Strode was a lesbian since her first appearance in 2008. It's not a new thing.

>>92175741
So what? It's so mainstream and overdone now it's nothing but a source of eye-rolling.

>>92175706
>manbearpig

>>92175831
Fuck I actually loled.

>>92175777
I saw this picture of the Olsen twins recently, and damned if they don't remind me of Panya. It's interesting and sad. Doubly so considering you couldn't cast either with out getting shit for Panya being Egyptian and them being white.

>>92175433
it's a fan's work taken by DC iirc

>>92175737
God, Grace was awful.

>>92173504
ASHLEY STRODE, DOOMSLAYER
https://youtu.be/Jm932Sqwf5E?t=2

>>92175805
So it's not a modern thing for Ashley, she's almost a decade old. Her crush on Liz is crucial to her character, it's the reason she's an exorcist because Kate used it to trick her into working the case.
>>92175881
It was, by a Ukrainian artist I believe.

>>92175741
>>92175805
I personally liked how it was alluded to with her 'fan obsession' about Liz, and how Kate used her senpai-type feelings about Liz at one point to convince her to accept a mission (saying something like how Liz thought highly of her or something). It was cleverly done.

I like to blame roberson

>>92175881
The inking and coloring's solid, but god, those expressions, that static action. Look at the upper-left panel in >>92175474, what kind of face is that for a dude who just found corpses and learned that some serious shit's going down? I get that a fan drew it, but man, they should've asked him to go back and revise some of this stuff.

>>92176111
What is the global status anyway? I kinda missed the intro bit...

>>92176079
Her stuff, it was a lady artist. Also it's super homoerotic for some reason.

>>92176196
her tumblr/twitter was full of sfw gay art done by her, also used to say she was bisexual right away iirc

not a surprise why it's homoerotic

>>92176196
>Her stuff, it was a lady artist.
Ah, my bad.

>Also it's super homoerotic for some reason.
Yeah, it feels super out of place for this setting.

>>92176467
Oh boy, that's some thick foreshadowing

>>92175805
get over it you big baby.

>>92174271
underrated

>>92176449
Man Abe cannot catch a break can he?

>>92176852
That Hem on the right looks like the one from the statues.

>>92176852
Is that a Jahad?

>>92176822
You know there some dark humor in all this

>>92176565
>Those two in a room
Heh.

>>92176928
OBDITH YUG JAHOOD

>>92176822
>>92176852
Wouldn't those aliens monitoring this be collectively shitting themselves or are they all dead?

>>92176867
On a cosmic scale how big is it that this things on earth, was this predicted at all or are prophecies bullshit

>>92177264
The prophecies got really fucked over when Hellboy died, iirc.

File: B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 137-024.jpg (2MB, 1987x3056px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1987x3056px

Good spot to end on a cliff hanger because next weeks storytime will be the last one.

>>92177379
Must be funny for all these set in stone prophecies that are supposed to be unavoidable being fucked over

>>92177602
I'd imagine its more like "As long as this happens, this will happen" Type prophecies.

>>92177408
>Gonna go slay a dragon, should be back for breakfast.

>>92177545
I feel like their plan was not well thought out. Hey, this dude just showed up with a super weapon capable of killing ogdru hem easily, why don't we quickly sail it over (with our shit fleet of mothballed ships) right to the doorstep of the third super-being on earth, who is a messenger for basically the council of true evil, one of which just landed in Kansas and is known to be in communication with him. What could go wrong?

>>92177602
They were not wrong. What the agents of hell did not know was that Hellboy's prophecy was not directed at the Earth but at Hell itself.

They just assumed that it was Earth.

>>92177733
One of the reasons why these issues are considered the weakest of the BPRD series.

>>92177602
They aren't wrong, they just didn't work out the way people thought they would. "Hellboy will bring about the summoning of the Ogdru-Jahad" didn't mean Hellboy would summon them, it meant that Hellboy continuously refusing his many birthrights would lead to an uppity fae pig starting shit that cause the Jahad to be summoned.

>>92177733
As a whole, and it's odd considering the years of info they have, the BPRD seems really uninformed about Ogdru Jahad and Hyperborea. Maybe the "research" in B.P.R.D. is mostly applicable research more so than history/myth or theory. But I mean forawhile they were basically government ghostbusters. And this end of days shit really did snowball quickly and more so under the U.N. have become this pseudo military force. And the one guy that does seem to have an understanding of it, they spent years thinking he was mostly crazy but kind of useful. Then Hellboy seems to leave shit out reports about what might be going on with him, Liz leaves shit out of her reports about the visions she had of the future, if she even makes reports at all. Like, I love Liz, but she is an awful, awful agent. But the point remains the B.P.R.D. has been dropping the ball a long time. Even Strode seems to know something is going on in hell but doesn't bother to send it up the line. There doesn't seem to be any real organization of the intelligence they get.

>>92178163
Well, Strode I can understand. Shit's going down, problems with demons that she can easily handle so far shouldn't be the bureau's problem.
Liz is dead inside through her agent years or an angsty teenager. Visions usually don't mean shit anyways, fuck prophecies, bla bla.
Hellboy always had a problem with authority, for obvious reasons.

>>92175339
those hips.....

>>92178290
But all that doesn't matter if a proper command and operational structure had ever been implemented. And now that I say it I guess Bruttenholm is to blame. Because he was kind of clearly willing to be the lore/books keeper without training anyone to replace him. And he was the one that seemed to stress more than anyone else that this was civilian organization. But even when he was they were on the right track under his lead. I mean he died investigating the temple that lead to the first crop of frogs. But after that no one seemed to have any insight to get ahead of things and the B.P.R.D. became a much more reactionary force.

>>92176878
Those people are kind of sad.

>>92178689
I think his death came suddenly, and that was the reason for not training anyone besides Hellboy.

>>92176416
>--But you had a father

Fuck, that bit got me.

>>92178790
The dude was 80 something years old.
He should have been training someone for 20 years at least 10. Not even mentioning the danger of field work for your average "trained" human let alone an octogenarian taking a trip to the fucking arctic.

>>92178963
He considered Hellboy as his protege.

>>92173504
>I can offer you a place in the new world to come.
>S-seriously. I'm a big deal.
>Wait, no! Don't send me back! My slaves are going to fucking murder me! Please!

Shit talking demons...

>>92173575
The militarization that followed the War on Frogs really did a number to the BPRD. They had enemies they could kill with bullets, so they got people good with guns. Lots of veterans and active military types. The older agents, from Bruttenholm's days knew more of the mystical side of things, but the rate of attrition got to be pretty high. Stasso was probably the last of the old guard besides Abe and Liz... and Kate, I guess, but she never got much into the occult beyond learning about it.

The swap over to the end of days was so quick, it left them fighting the same way they had in the past.

Really what they should be doing is finding and recruiting shamans, like Dayana, that shapeshifting clan from the South-West, that native guy who could control/guide Ogopogo... well that last guy is probably dead but that's just giving examples.

>>92173523
So she was a lesbian

>>92174009
Hellboy lore, although super cool and intricate in itself, is weird and doesnt make a whole lot of sense once you begin to apply any kind of real world comparative theology to it.

In Hellboy all divine beings are actually spirtual children descended from either the messengers/angels of God/The Universe at the start of the world or the seven-in-one dragon of night created by one of those messenger angels at the start of the world or Hecate who learned the secrets of magic from the renegede angel that created the seven fold dragon and was captured/located by/a friend of the ancient king of the golden first humans, Thoth, in his garden in ancient hyperborea/the antarctic and gave that knowledge to all the citizens of his kingdom (which they mainly used to worship and diefy Hecate herself). Or some combination of that.

So she is (probably) talking to one of the angels of the creator being capitol G God, who is the god of all christian abrahamic faiths, and taken as a seprerate and one of the main gods in the Hindu faith.

Of course the Hindu faith (in the cannon universe of hellboy) also largely venerated evil deamon monsters descended from satan, the evil seven in one dragon and hecate.

>>92179201
Did you not read the OP?

>>92175131
>>92175152

Killing your feral mutant frog sister and not being sure if it was actually her is a tough deal to handle.

>>92175190
So... since there's at least three of those eggs (the one from Atlantis, the Mona and the one from Abe's first mission without Hellboy) does that mean that each one was a T'sethuan shaman who transformed themselves to carry on light into the new world?

Do they all have spirit buddies, like Shonchin?

Shonchin is the only one who didn't ascend, iirc, that's why he's a shaman and not fish-alien

>>92175913
>She could detach her own head so she must have known what was up.

Legitimate line of thought.

>>92175981
>>92175996

So Maggies is like Howards, but she got a shaman in her head instead of a warrior?

>>92176294
thats cos she was like what, an 18 year old deviant art gay erotica artist

and this was all fanfic, that they (dont remember if it was mignolia personall) liked enough to roll into the cannon

happened to star trek a few times too

>>92175667
Good ol days.

>>92179821
There's also the one that Strobl finds.