First look at David Harbour as Hellboy. Looks fucking awesome

>>95313182
The hand looks a bit worse. Kinda like a metal prop.

>>95313182
Wow, that looks really good. It looks exactly like Perlman, though that's to be expected since that was a perfect visual adaptation.

what have you done to me /co/

is it gonna be practical makeup or motion capture?

>>95313182
Kinda ambivalent about longer hair, but otherwise it looks good.

>>95313353
HB usually has long hair, it's just done up in top knot most of the time.

>>95313324
It's all makeup and prosthetics.

>>95313310
Not really sure what the point of this post was.

>>95313182
I like the horns.

Not so sure about the scars...isin't he supposed to fast healing without leaving marks?

Can't say from the angle, but the gun looks a lil small

Rock hand is too shiny, it doesn't look aged enough

That aside, I like this look. 9/10 Perlman approves . Fix the hair and it's a solid 10/10

The samaritan looks a LOT smaller, the preivous one was better

Really curious how abe is gonna turn out

>>95313265
>It looks exactly like Perlman
My thoughts exactly

>>95313182
Looks like Hellboy is juicin'

Looks so much like Perlman that it seems weird it won't be a continuation. IS that prothetics or is David Harbour ripped as fuck under his clothes? He usually looks kinda schlubby.

>>95313265
>It looks exactly like Perlman
You can't improve upon perfection and they were smart not to try.

>>95316389
Yeah, the new gun sucks

>>95313182
If I didn't already know this was David Harbour beforehand, I'd literally think this was just Ron Pearlman.

Though I'm not sure what they were thinking making his hand glossy looking.

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here's another pic of David as Hellboy

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>>95316909

Should have just went with a mechanical head

>>95313182
>No Guillermo Del Toro
>No Ron Pearlman
>another pointless reboot of a franchise

Skipping this.

>>95316909
that looks less good, his eyes are lost

>>95316909
Jesus, the two look completely different.

This one just looks terrible. Like some mongoloid attempt at cosplay.

>>95316909
Gross

>>95316909
they fucked up. He looks like he has a little t-rex arm because the Hand prop starts halfway down his forearm instead of at the elbow.

>>95316106
>Not so sure about the scars...isin't he supposed to fast healing without leaving marks?
Was thinking the same.

>>95316948
>>No Guillermo Del Toro
So maybe it'll actually be like Hellboy?

>>95317231
I've read the comics and liked them, but I was a big fan of del Toro's adaptation of Hellboy.

>>95317093

OP pic looks alright, but that b&w image looks like a thing you might find in a Face-off elimination round.

>>95313182
>>95316909
Where's the fucking top knot?

Also like the other anon said, there's something off about the proportions. See, now they have to get another prosthetic arm for his left to even it out.

First impression..

It looks awesome.

But then..

Perlman was pretty much made for the role.

And translated well on screen.

Had the voice for it.

...and was well written.
..
..
Dont know how it will play out.

>>95313182
Shit, it looks great. Quick, I need something to complain about!
The eyes aren't yellow enough

>>95313182
I'd fuck him

>>95318292
Isn't Perlman almost 70? Just too old by now, unfortunately.

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So you think the BPRD is gonna be any kind of competent or like every version of them they exist to get slaughtered like pigs

>>95318341

Hmm..

Its all prosthetics, makeup and cgi.

Maybe they could have made it work.

Anyway im not complaining..

Superman cast been recast many times.

They probably know what they are doing.

>>95313182
>>95316909
I am HYPED

>>95313182
looks good

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>>95316909
Haha looks like vigo from ghostbusters

the fuck last I heard a few months ago this wasn't happening

>>95313182
Everything looks great except the hair.

>>95313182

Needs a haircut.

But other than that perfect.

>>95318292
>translated well on screen
It was literally nothing like the source material. It was X-Men levels of faithful

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>>95318381
I just hope they don't focus on the shittier aspects of the BPRD namely the fact that everyone shit on the super powers characters even though it's a act they'd be useless without them

>>95318795
I guess you weren't around a couple of weeks ago for the whole whitewashing controversy for one of the castings of this movie.

>>95318341
If Perlman gets in the hellboy suit one more time it will kill him

>>95313182
>>95316909
Looks like they tried to make him look as much like a generic edgy movie monster as possible.
Like I know he's a demon but the David-Boreanaz-Angel look is lame.
Still, could be worse.

>>95313182
Really like how his skin actually has texture instead of bright red rubber like in del Toro's

>>95313265
>It looks exactly like Perlman
I-is it?

Kind of reminds me of a red Vigo from Ghostbusters II

>>95318341
Too old to do what, exactly?

>>95316462
My thoughts exactly. This version looks more shreded than Pearlman's.

So why is the first movie they're doing in what I assume is a series of the story where Hellboy dies?

>>95320266
Setting up the Hellboy in Hell tv series while the movies handle BPRD

>>95318590
Its the hair people are used seeing it tied back

>>95319867
Nah, he looks like Hellboy.

>No del Toro
>No Perlman

It's going to be fucking trash with this nobody director and actor.

>>95316462
>>95320231
That's gotta be prostethics, right?
No way Harbour got that ripped that quickly, I mean, even with the help of roids.

>>95320548
The movies were action-comedy shit that had little to do with the excellent source material that gave it life. So fuck off. You want quips, ineffectual villains, and shitty romances go watch a Marvel movie

>>95320682
You're either stupid or a casual. You think the Hellboy comics have no quips or dumb villains? Fuck off.

>>95320682
They were still great movies regardless. No one bitches about how Frankenstein is completely different from the source material but we all praise the classic film. Fuck your idealistic Hellboy movie. It will never happen and the new movie is going to be hot garbage.

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>>95320682
Hellboy is known to quip

>>95320592
>That's gotta be prostethics, right?

Of course. Pearlman's iteration was the same thing. They just went and made Harbour's look way more buff.

>>95320682
>shitty romances

I really do like how little romance there is in the Mignolaverse

>>95320548
That movie was garbage and the visuals aged like milk. It was good for the '00's when everything used bad excess of CG, but the CG in that first movie was absolute trash then and even worse now. And worse they used it for too much of the movie.

What world are all these del toro fanboys coming from. What movie did they watch that I didn't.

>>95316909
Wrong, this is clearly the Undertaker cosplaying as Hellboy. He has foregone using a gun and will now fight nazi gorilla robots with the tombstone piledriver.

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>>95321020
you're crazy man, the overall movies look great. there's some spotty CGI in Hellboy 1 but by and large it holds up.

Hellboy 2 holds up 100%.

>>95321020
you have shit opinions and you come across as a vile and unapproachable human being.

>>95316909
>too much is blurry
>quality is like a phone camera with a black and white filter app
>sound equipment in the background
>lighting and angle is bad and makes his face look like a skull because of how his beard is setup.

I have a hard time believing this one is "official".

>>95316948
>Adapting "Blood Queen" story line
>Directed by Neil "The Decent, " Dog Soldiers"fucking Marshall
>closer in tone to the comics

Yeah fuck your shit

>>95321020
It's a nostalgia thing. Unfortunately, the movies have a cult following far outstripping the comics, with Del Toro and Pearlman being something like cultural staples for the new "nerd" crowd. They're pretty easily digestible media too, action, comedy, cool visuals, tasteful bit of horror, obligatory love story.

It does pain me to see all the people preemptively shitting on this movie with a "not muh"

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>>95321020
looks fine to me

>>95321146
That's an awfully strong reaction against someone not liking a crappy turn of the century movie

>>95321155
Harbour posted it on his twitter

Is it just me or are they trying to make Hellboy sexier? I'm usually about this kinda shit but... HB is not for Sexy.

>>95316948
>Chris Golden on the screenplay instead of Guillermo Del Toro elf fanfiction
I mean the man creates beautiful movies, I love his work, but the story of HB2 was absolute garbage.
Golden meanwhile wrote some of my favorite HB novels.

>>95321345
his draft's already being rewritten

>>95321115
>spotty
>that terrible CG blood used for no reason when fake blood could have poured just as easily.
>the monsters all look like the unfinished half rendered versions you get in special features or 80's CGI effects
>that terrible plot
>that painfully bad and slow and completely unneeded rooftop scene and the romance it was supposed to support.

Yeah post more shots from the trailer and tell me how artist the shooting was, I'll ignore that overall the character dialogue was poorly written with a few good quips now and then reminding you of how bad the rest of the dialogue was. I'll ignore the shoddy plot and badly rendered tentacles because of how cool you thought the clockwork nazi was. I'll ignore the ugly choice of red for Hellboy's makeup because they got Abe's makeup perfectly.

It can't even hold up its own plot near the end and just gets really silly.

>>95321198
I was talking about the CG in the first one. Or are we forgiving it because of the second one? The first left a bad enough taste when I rewatched it I didn't feel like looking into the second again, but given how people talk about the first I don't think I trust most of you to tell me the second one also "holds up".

>>95321345
The movie seems to have everything it needs to be really good. I'm still pretty concerned with their choices concerning Alice, not the race thing but the direction they're taking the character

>>95321423
>Abe's makeup perfectly
The greatest crime of those movies, besides the awful love plot, was turning Abe into an effeminate sissy fish

>>95321415
Goddammit that was kinda my major hope going into this.
>>95321450
Things are going to have to jumble a fair bit to cram the Blood Queen story line into a workable movie format- what direction are they taking her in? I haven't been too up on the pre-movie info, I'm trying to not get my hopes up.

>>95321499
It was weird, it was like a lot of work went into a character who was completely different from the comics and was just a side character in the movie.

Given del toro's latest movie I wonder if he just has a thing for fish men.

>>95313182
Why the fuck is Jack Black Hellboy?

>>95321423
lol like anyone needs to prove to you that a Del Toro movie is well shot

>>95316947
ew

>>95321610
>Given del toro's latest movie I wonder if he just has a thing for fish men.

well he said the other day that his dream since a child was to film a sex scene between a fish monster and a person so there you go

Looks pretty cool, but the eyes get lost.

>>95316909
This one looks a little less good. Looks a little too monstrous.

>>95321423
I think the Del Toro movies are fine. Maybe not great, but at the least they got me and a good deal of people into the comics. Putting this much effort to shit on them is kind of pointless anyway, you don't have to like them but don't be a bitch about it

>>95320105
Nope. It's that guy from Stranger Things.

>>95321629
lol I didn't say a thing about how well "shot" the movie was. Too bad looking pretty doesn't hold up painful plot and dialogue, and that overused and cheap looking CGI ruins any shot no matter how well done it was.

https://youtu.be/Yl9GCcS755Q
Reminder

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eh, a lot of CGI in Hellboy 1 really is fine

>>95321695
I wouldn't put this much effort but you have these absolute morons going around saying "no del toro? No perlman? It's gonna be shit." That's what I was responding to before.

Like, come the fuck on. They weren't as bad as most other superhero movies from that decade, but the best you can say is they were "ok but didn't age well". But to actually be a fanboy to them, over the comics, as if they were this amazing thing in and of themselves?

That's all I care about in this. If you want to like the movie, that's great. I'm excited for something new with actual people who made the comics in on the process more and an actor who I've seen in a show in the same genre play the same type of character perfectly. Telling me that it's gonna be shit because of some weird fetish for the previous movies is what pisses me off.

>>95321584
From what I understand, she's going to be on the actual team and have different "powers", if you can really even describe her comic incarnation as having "powers" in the traditional sense. It sounds like she's a weird mix of Kate and Alice proper

I'm not opposed to Hellboy and Daimio being on the team at the same time, since I'm just happy to have the latter at all. But throwing Alice in there is weird

>>95321661
Good for him

>>95321661
Better get to adapting Alan Moore, then

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Just for fun here's this.

>>95321941
Terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxqkUIPfUo

>>95321918
Huh. Maybe kinda like a field witch/scholar, which would kinda make some sense?
Yeah, that's a little weird. I am sad to miss a possibility of having a Kate, who is best girl.
Daimio being there at all (and not being white washed) is pretty sick though, ngl, I love that character.

>>95321941
bad but I was recently trying to figure out how I could go about a decent cosplay and I'd be lucky to get something together even half as good as this so that makes me feel even worse.

>>95321968
Well that was bad. They didn't even get the RHOD right.

This Hellboy reboot kerfluffle is reminding me of the Stargate movie reboot. In both cases, the original creator takes back the property they made, after another creator made it popular, but made it popular with a different continuity or intepretation.

>>95313182
not bad at all

>>95317354
Mignola liked the Del Toro's adaptations.

>>95322004
i'm kind of annoyed Liz doesn't seem to be in it

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>>95322022
>after another creator made it popular
>made it popular
With who?

>>95322059
i prefer the comics to the movies but even Mignola is open about the fact that the movies grew the comics audience substantially, although the way he put it "when i'm dead they're gonna show a picture of Ron Perlman"

>>95322031
That's because everytime Del Toro was going to do something dumb Mignola would draw him a sketch if he promised not to do it.

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>>95316909
>David Harbour

>>95322084
i kind would've been curious to see that baby carriage in the middle of a big WW2 battle scene with Rasputin

>>95322059
The millennial trendy nerd crowd, probably. The ones who think they're in a special elite club for watching the Hellboy movies and playing Fallout 4.

>>95320208
Literally sit through hours of makeup every single day of filming. Dude would probably die of heat stroke under five pounds of being red and bright ass lights shining on him for hours while he played the role of an action hero.

>>95313265
>It looks exactly like Perlman
So why not just get Ron?

>>95322145
and then he'd have to go do at least a minor level of stunt work

>>95322051
I'm not, but mostly for fear of that horrible romance. Comic Liz is great.
Alice... well, Alice in the comics kinda worked, fuck only knows how it'll do in this movie.

>>95322163
Hellboy and Alice had the most hilariously subdued romance of anything i've ever read. Mignola is not a romance writer so he doesn't really focus on it.

>>95313182

I don't know if I like it. It doesn't look BAD hair aside but Pearlman's looked more expressive. Granted he is mugging for the camera here

>>95322059
More people in the casual public heard of the Hellboy comic, due to the Hellboy movies. This is an unavoidable fact--I'm not talking about quality; this is just about the audience. I remember seeing the Hellboy movie trailers on television when I was younger, and seeing the billboards for it. Hellboy the movie got tons of exposure to people who didn't even know about comics beside Marvel and DC.

(Same for Stargate SG-1, which many people watched, even if they didn't know it was based on a movie.)

>>95322149
Because Ron is too fucking old for all that makeup and all those prosthetics

>>95322224
That's not how make up works.

>>95322243
pretty sure he meant too old to do the action stuff, not that he'd look too old

>>95322243

yes it is you fuckwit. Male up is heavy and hot and you have to be in it for like a fuck load of hours. It's easy to pass out from heat exhaustion.

>>95322190
I am 500% okay with that, it made it seem kinda sweet.

>>95322220
Maybe. My guilty pleasure is the ghost rider movie with nicholas cage. I never cared for the comics though.

I saw the hellboy movies but they didn't stick with me. The premise did as did a couple of characters, but nothing about the movies really stuck with me or made me want to look for more, or even rewatch them.

I was introduced to the comics years later. I don't get why people like the movies but I've liked worse.

>>95322218
Honestly it will come down to actual acting and movie producing ability. You can nitpick the look but if he plays a good hellboy he plays a good hellboy and we won't know until it happens. Ron had the look nailed but I seriously doubt they're going to disregard his attempt to reproduce an incredibly difficult character to get live action and just fuck everything up.

>>95322275
>I don't get why people like the movies but I've liked worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAzLjhojtM

I really love scenes like this

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>>95322271
>>95322190
I happened to have this page saved as a drawing reference.

I loved these two interacting.

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>>95320682
>>95320826
>no dumb villians

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>>95322271
the brevity of it made this pretty tragic

>>95322319

Man I love me some Arthurian shit but red's origins get more and more confusing every day

>>95322332
If you can't enjoy evil gorillas you just can't enjoy life, friend.

>>95322275
I can understand Ghost Rider, because he doesn't have a ton of good stories to his name. Not only that, but most capeshit has been interpreted so differently across many authors having another interpretation doesn't really mean much

When it's been consistent and consistently good like Hellboy, it's on a different level. With properties like Spider-Man, X-Men, or even Daredevil you can point to different places an adaption pulled from. With Hellboy, or any other consistent property like a manga, if they don't do a 1:1 adaption they're just making shit up. Shit that's usually worse than the source material. If unfaithful adaptions had a good track record I'd be more positive, but by and large it turns out poorly. The Hobbit in particular comes to mind

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>>95322332
fuck me

>>95322343
he's just a half demon half human with two human siblings, 3 demon siblings and for some reason is to heir to the throne of England. whats confusing about that?

>>95322332
Two panels that are 100x more interesting than Malekith or Ronan

>>95322358
I think you misunderstand I love evil gorillas

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Im still waiting for that Atomic Robo crossover

>>95322296
I won't give you grief for liking it, but that scene really illustrates all the the things I disliked the most about those movies. It's just so clumsy and cartoony. Overdone and cliche tropes happening there, it hurts to see this.

>>95322275
The comic' characters made it work. Hellboy feels like a regular dude, who just happens to have horns, and the "secret government group" felt like an actual agency. Plus small hints of weirdness that never overly took over the narrative, made it still accessible.

And the good actors.

(As I have a fondness for pyrokinesis, and had a crush on Liz, I had even more reason to like the movie.)

Also, Hellboy is a good fantasy movie, and those are harder to do than it seems. It was humorous, but still had a grounding in seriousness. And great villain design, a sweet romance at the center...I'm not talking about "compared to the comic"; I'm talking about as a movie on its own.

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>>95322398
Evil apes of all stripes really are pretty great.

>>95322340
Goddamn there are so many subtle heartbreaking moments in this universe. Daimio vs Wendigo will always be my favorite

>>95322387
a coat rack with a funny hat on it is a more interesting villain than Malekith

>>95322343
That's not part of his origins, he just got mixed up in some shit and magic can be complicated.

>>95322426
No, wasn't his mom of the line of Arthur, by way of Mordred?

>>95322403
nothing clumsy about it, it's a beautiful sequence that visually illustrates the tragic decline of magic folk in the movieverse.

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>>95322416
>that detail on the revolver
It's small but cheapo top breaks have a place in my heart.

>>95322434
His mom was so fucked up I don't even know anymore. I guess all of this is a sign I need to reread that whole story again.

>>95322275
>I don't get why people like the movies
Good acting and amazing creature/set design.

>>95322449
>it's a beautiful sequence
If you're going to say things like this I'm going to have to shit on it.

The "tossing the baby" bit at the start was a 90's kids movie kind of gag. It's literally cartoon gag, made worse by the dated CGI.

The way he hesitated and Krauss kept yelling was just bad writing and pacing, again something you'd expect from low budget kids show writing, not fitting for hellboy. That whole transition from taking a bunch of shots and then hesitating so the elf can give his speech was just badly paced and poorly written.

The speech itself didn't fit there. They actually had him come over to stand near the precarious place Hellboy was standing to give him that whole spiel, spelled out simply and clearly, as subtle as that big spray painted nerf gun they gave Hellboy.

All of that tied to overdone makeup on everyone, making them look more fitting to a power rangers episode or at best the early live action ninja turtles.

No, sorry, I didn't like it. It was not beautiful, it was ugly as all fuck. I'll give props to the giant plant god monster for being well designed and not as jarring to look at as the actors in makeup or the CG flying baby.

>>95322605
How about we agree to disagree and move on.

>>95322501
I even more don't get why people would say something so monumentally false.

>>95322605
yeah just not agreeing with you there, it was a real highlight of the film.

>>95322631
>>95322656
>this is the average iq of your Del Toro fan
Jesus Christ defend your opinions.

>>95322243
prosthetics are extremely fucking shit to work in. young dudes do it easy but old people would just overheat and die

>>95322690
>Trumpvoter
Go back to /pol/

>>95322656
>>95322631
Am I taking crazy pills or something. That scene was terrible. It highlights a lot of the worst aspects of the movies. It looked and felt like a kids movie scene in everything from the visual to the writing quality, but this is not a kids movie and can't be forgiven for that.

Just. Are you nostalgic for it? That's fine. Whatever. But seriously the nicest thing I can say about that scene is that it hasn't aged well.

>>95322690
Man, you're a real cunt

>>95322690
>>95322735
meh, I don't really have all night for this sort of thing.

it's a well shot and edit sequence that pushes across the main themes of the film, complimented by Danny Elfman's score. Del Toro really likes to emphasize weird monsters as beautiful creatures and this sequence is a perfect example of that.

usually death sequences of monsters are pretty gruesome, you can just look at the many deaths of Sardu for that in Hellboy 1, but here we get the opposite, the Elemental's death is gorgeous. It gets across a real sense of awe in how amazing these creatures are and that also hits with a dose of melancholy because now they're gone forever. Del Toro is earnest as fuck about this stuff and that's why it's so engaging, this kind of scene you're not gonna see in a made by committee film, it requires genuine passion for the subject matter.

you can pontificate all day about why you don't like it, but it really shouldn't be hard to see why other people do. just on technical work alone there's some lovely camera movement and compositions.

>>95322149
He's too old and the make up seasons can affect his health

>>95322850
oh and as a slight visual gag you see the Elemental's penis

>>95320826
They do in one-off issues or as single panel one-liners but the tone of the comic has always been cosmic horror you tard.

The entire tone of the second movie is overly comedic. They even reduce Johann fucking Krauss, probably the most depressing character in the entire comic, into a Seth Macfarlane voiced slapstick funny man

>>95322936
I don't think Kraus' arc from the comic would really have fit the tone established in the first film, plus his arc took years to play out. they didn't necessarily have to change him the way they did but he would've had to been changed in some respects to fit him in.

>>95322850
It's a well shot sequence of poorly done visuals that ruin any effect the cameraman and director could hope to achieve.

You're right it does push the main theme of the movie. All at once. Repeating itself to make sure no one in the audience could possibly not have gotten the hint, bluntly hitting each person over the head with the main theme of the film so no one will misunderstand what it was, not even small children in the front row for this PG-13 movie.

No. This is not how you write a script, this is not how you do a scene, this is not how you put meaning or a theme or anything into your story. It's cheesy by the standards of movies 15 years older than it is.

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>>95322268
>that time he went in full make up for a make-a-wish kid

Never read Hellboy of BPRD is it any good? Where's a good place to start?

>>95323220

Hellboy's great. It's over now, and it's been collected in volumes. It's fairly easy to get into. Search out Hellboy Vol. 1 and buy it from wherever you feel like. If you enjoy it, move onto Vol 2.

Haven't read much BPRD myself.

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Well thanks to synergy we're getting Hellboy omnibuses which is much better for my budget but I'm was already planning on getting the library editions

Could they get big yellow eyes to work?

>>95313182
>>95316909
I can't smile without you

>>95323288
>In 1994, Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction and introduced the world to the Right Hand of Doom, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, and one of the most iconic comic book characters—and universes—of all time. For more than 20 years, Mignola and a host of celebrated writers and artists have chronicled the adventures of Hellboy facing his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse, and explored the mysterious backstories of B.P.R.D. agents including Professor Trevor Bruttenholm and Abe Sapien. Now, for the first time ever, Dark Horse Books will publish Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order with the Hellboy Omnibus Collection, creating the definitive reading experience for Hellboy fans and an ideal entry point for new readers.

>>95323321
>This major publishing initiative consists of four Hellboy Omnibus volumes, featuring every Hellboy story written and illustrated by Mignola and The Wild Hunt storyline written by Mignola and illustrated by Duncan Fegredo, which is the basis for the forthcoming Hellboy film directed by Neil Marshall. In addition, Dark Horse will publish two volumes of Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories featuring stories illustrated by artists including Richard Corben, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon. Each of the six trade paperback books will feature new covers by Mignola and Eisner award-winning colorist Dave Stewart.

>>95323289
With enough money to throw at CGI you can make literally anything happen.

Making CGI look good just takes fat stacks of cash so you have to be smart about it.

>>95323351
>“I’m very excited to finally have all the Hellboy stories collected in chronological order,” said Mike Mignola. “And I’m especially excited to have the three Duncan Fegredo books—all the stuff with Alice and the Queen of Blood—together in one collection for the first time.”

>Hellboy has appeared in graphic novels and comic books, prose novels and short story collections, two animated features, two live action films, toy lines and all manner of merchandise. Neil Marshall’s forthcoming Hellboy film is currently in pre-production, starring David Harbour, Sasha Lane, Ian McShane, Penelope Mitchell, and Milla Jovovich.

>>95323421
little frustrating that i own 3 library editions already

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They better fix that.

I like everything except the pronounced veins all over the place. He's a goddamn demon, not Sylvester Stallone. Looks fucking weird.

>>95323421
Each of the six trade paperback volumes will be priced at $ $24.99 US/$33.99 Canada.

About the Hellboy Omnibus Collection:

Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
Available in comic stores on May 23rd and in bookstores on June 5, 2018.

The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, fighting alongside Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and drafting Roger Homunculus into his own ill-fated service with the B.P.R.D. This 368-page volume covers Hellboy’s adventures from 1994 to 1997, reprinting Seed of Destruction, Wake the Devil, and “Wolves of St August,” “The Chained Coffin,” and “Almost Colossus,” from The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom.

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>>95321162
>mfw BPRD grunts get to banter and do some shit just like in Dog Soldiers
I am so hopeful for this.

>>95323495
>Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
Available Summer 2018.

The ultimate introduction to this supernatural hero features 16 standalone stories with Mignola’s greatest collaborators—stories that can be read in any order.

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 StoriesVolumes 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 Ba, and Fabio Moon, as well as one of Mignola’s early masterpiece, “The Corpse.” This 368-page volume covers Hellboy’s adventures from 1947 to 1961, reprinting stories from The Chained Coffin, The Right Hand of Doom, The Bride of Hell, The Crooked Man, The Troll Witch, and Hellboy's childhood adventure, The Midnight Circus, drawn by Duncan Fegredo.

Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places
Available Summer 2018.

Hellboy loses faith in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense when they strap a bomb to one of his fellow not-quite-human agents. He gets answers about his destiny, like it or not, in over 300 pages of comics mostly drawn by Mignola, featuring award-winning guests Gary Gianni and Richard Corben. 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

>>95322340
What's heart breaking about that? Context? The girl in the previous panel died and he is talking to her ghost or something?

>>95323575
This is gonna be a great thing to recommend newbies, normally you have to preface Seed of Destruction with "it gets better", short stories are an easy way to side step that.

>>95323439
wut

>>95323439
Yeah it looks like cardboard

>>95321941
his body screams baby but his face screams death bed

>>95323625
Sorry if this is too nitpicky but I'm cringing at the sight of a blocky right-hand of doom.

>>95322343
With the destiny that Hellboy's dad had set up for him I always thought it weird that he was just the kid of some nun. Made total sense that she came from more powerful blood.

>>95323642
That too but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for showing us just a prop for the sake of a release picture of Hellboy.

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I hope it follows closely to the comics like how Hellboy is a public figure and not someone who's existence kept secret along with BPRD.

Did the Lobster ever had a cameo in Del Toro's Hellboy?

>>95323606
Hellboy saved her from faeries as a baby, they reunited 50 years later, Alice became ageless due to faerie magic, and she helped pull Hellboy out of drunken depression and they become a couple. After dealing with Morgan Le Faye together and some adventures Hellboy dies saving the world, and all of England ascends to a different plane of existence while Hellboy goes to Hell.

Alice becomes the new Queen Man (folklore figure) and basically loses her human identity. She's permanently tied to England while Hellboy, save this brief moment, is permanently stuck in Hell. This is the last time they see each other.

>>95322258
That's what stunt men are for. Or did you really think Christopher Lee was doing all that sword fighting in Star Wars?

>>95323684
Queen Mab, not man

>>95323705
Yeah and looked how terrible that turned out, or go watch Madame Gao in Defenders. It forces so much awkward cutting.

>>95318412
Learn how to format a post.

Or just stop posting, please.

Or maybe you should go back to your favorite subreddit instead.

Thanks a lot.

>>95323477
Retard

>>95323683
He was gonna be in the third animated movie, played by Bruce Campbell.

>>95323684
Well now I feel dumb. I never caught on to that, I thought Hellboy just didn't want to go to Hell. But then I read the comics as they came out, with even longer spaces between them when I missed that new issues had come out, and I still haven't reread it all. There's probably tons of shit I didn't connect simply because I didn't remember he older stuff.

>>95323787
The amount of eureka moments I had on my first reread was ridiculous. There is a staggering amount of connections across years of stories.

>>95323764
Fuck off Sly, no one likes your juice veins.

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>>95323775
holy shit Ron Perlmans head is so fucking big

>>95323575

Available Fall 2018.

The basis for the upcoming Hellboy feature film! Terrible powers determined to kill Hellboy force him strike a deal with the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, and to confront the truth about his destiny. The human race hangs in the balance, as well as King Arthur's sword Excalibur, in a story that wipes England off the map and sets in motion the end of the world … Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's complete trilogy is collected for the first time in this 512-page volume, reprinting Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, and The Storm and the Fury, and the short story "The Mole."

Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2
Available Fall 2018.

Featuring “The Hydra and the Lion,” “The Troll Witch,” “The Baba Yaga,” “The Sleeping and the Dead,” “Heads,” “Goodbye Mister Tod,” “The Vârcolac,” “The Vampire of Prague,” “The Bride of Hell,” “The Whittier Legacy,” “Buster Oakley Gets His Wish,” “They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships,” “A Christmas Underground”, “Dr. Carp’s Experiment,” “The Ghoul,” “In the Chapel of Moloch,” and “Makoma.”

Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell
Available Winter 2019
Hellboy in Hell, The Exorcist of Vorsk, The Magician and the Snake

>>95323807
>>95323787
I reread it twice a year and I'm always finding little things I missed. That's why I'm working on an annotated timeline.

>>95323831
>>95323575
Forgot to post this

>Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt Available Fall 2018.
>The basis for the upcoming Hellboy feature film! Terrible powers determined to kill Hellboy force him strike a deal with the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, and to confront the truth about his destiny. The human race hangs in the balance, as well as King Arthur's sword Excalibur, in a story that wipes England off the map and sets in motion the end of the world … Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's complete trilogy is collected for the first time in this 512-page volume, reprinting Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, and The Storm and the Fury, and the short story "The Mole."

>>95323842
I've been meaning to give that a full read, I like the annotations

>>95322402
If only honestly they could pull it off with multiversal shenanigans and Robo insisting that magic is just unexplainable science which technically it is in hellboy

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>>95313265
>There will never be a third Ron Perlman Hellboy movie.
Makes me sad, but this preview makes me happy. Hopefully Harbour tries imitating him. Although, that would result in people asking "Why not just cast Ron Perlman?".

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>>95322258
Bull. Mel Gibson was in an action movie, recently. The fucker was in the best shape of his life. And Gibson is only 6 years younger than Ron.

>>95324092
Anon, get over it. He's old and tired. He probably doesn't WANT to do it. Unlike Gibson who's been trying to get back into movies (successfully) for years.
There's nothing wrong with a recast especially since this'll be separate from the other movies anyway.

>>95324092
Did he do it with pounds of make up on

>>95324092
Not knowing which movie you're talking about I'm just going to assume that it didn't have the kind of thrown-through-the-air brawl fights that Hellboy would have, but rather gunfights and "easy" fight-scenes, none of which would be done wearing heavy prosthetic.

And then there's the fact that at those ages six years mean a lot, and that Gibson is clearly taking some form of steroids to at least make up for the loss in hormones produced by the body as it ages, which Perlman is not.

>>95324043
>Hopefully Harbour tries imitating him.
I hope the opposite

>>95324452
this, perlman wasnt perfect

>>95321931
>Better get to adapting Alan Moore, then


post it.

>>95321162
>The Descent
Oh fuck yes. That is my favorite horror film.

>>95325066
The Descent is the only horror movie that's made me involuntarily scream, which surprises even myself. It took me a second before I realised that it was ME who was making the noise.

>>95322402
this world isnt kind enough for that

>>95324463
Perlman was perfect, he just wasn't written or directed to be like comic Hellboy

Have you not seen the direct to DVD movies with Perlman doing the voice?
Spot on Hellboy right there.

>>95324452

I agree. Not because I didn't like Perlman's performance, but because he can't possibly out-Perlman Perlman.

I hope he finds another interpretation of the character that works. I just can't imagine what it could be.

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>>95325447
and just for keks

>>95325447
If it was Perlman with Harbour's makeup, it'd be perfect.

>>95325460
>tfw no Zack Synder Hellboy

I would like to Hellboy workout

>>95322319
>he's just swinging it around while walking through a field


God I love Hellboy so much

>>95313182
>looks like a wwe wrestler
>no yellow eyes with no pupils
>didn't even bother to give him the classic shorts
I thought they wanted to be closer to the comic, i'm still cautiously optimistic but way less hyped, not digging this look, it looks derivative of perlman's instead of being based on mignola's art from scratch

>>95313182
Less muscle suit, more muscle?
I'm OK with this.

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Just for the record, the lighting in Harbour's picture is perfect. They even went so far as to cast his left eye in shadow. It's great. Harbour LOOKS great.

>>95323288
>Well thanks to synergy we're getting Hellboy omnibuses


FUCK I ALREADY STARTED BUYING THE LIBRARY EDITIONS

>>95325553
These new ones are softcover.

>>95322243
Makeup like that overheats you easily.
Most older Actors avoid it. That's where cgi comes in.
Also, he hasn't worn the hellboy suit in a decade. Why would he go back? If this movie is a success, he could do MAYBE one more, if that. It's smart to recast with a younger actor (he's like 25 years younger)

>>95325520

I am convinced the yellow eyes with no pupils could not possibly work in live action.

>>95313182
Are they keeping Beltrami's Red Right Hand remix? 'Cause that was fitting and dope.

>>95325594
Oh, alright I guess i'm not missing much, i'll probably buy them anyway in 4 years

>>95313182
>hellboy chest hairs

noice

>>95325447
that fucking hair on the new one kills any hype i might have. makes him look like a fucking wwe wrestler.

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>>95325553
>mfw I've only bought one library edition because it was on sale, and it was the sixth one
>mfw I did the same with one of the Absolute Sandman ones
My continual dread is that I will never be able to afford the rest after they go out of print because of another edition coming out. In my defence, they're not as easy/cheap to get over here, either.

>>95324043
Why not just have Hellboy be CGI and have Ron Pearlman do the voice?

>>95325915
Because that's a fucking terrible idea?

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HB looks good but...

>its a reboot

>>95323421
>Ian McShane and Milla Jovovich

Well crap. Now I've got to watch this. Please tell me Milla is Nimue. Tiny Bloody titties.

>>95325931
Why not just have Hellboy be stop motion and have David Harbour do his Ron Perlman impression for the voice?

>>95325935
>hide the palm in shadows

wait is that really a thing? his palm must have been shown at some point.

>>95325938
stop motion in live-action is deader than animatronics

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>>95316909
>>95313182
I dunno. The goggles look really weird. Are they cracked?

Why is this happening without GDT, again? What's the point?

>>95325983
Because Hellboy 2 didn't make enough money

>>95318381
I hope it's like in Dog Soldiers. Military boys who are simply in over their head fighting the supernatural but go down with one hell of a fight. Not some FBI-agents who get taken out by tooth fairies.

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>>95322319
Why isn't she black or pacific islander or both? Fuck Trump's America!

>>95325964
>>95326028
Fuck off.

>>95322085
Yeah, I think the new one looks a lot like buffy vampires, which isn't necessarily bad.

>>95326091
I'd prefer a more even brow, rather than one that drops in the centre and makes him look permanently angry.

>>95323288
I wonder what these will be like, format-wise. Will they be large, thick trades like the Usagi Saga books, small hardcovers like the Weird Tales collection, or small paperbacks like their Star Wars omnis were?

>>95322383
>for some reason
I think on his mother's side he's a descendant of Arthur, hence the claim on the throne of England

>>95323842
Mignolaposter is this you? Thanks again for the threads, when are planning to do a new one?

>>95325936
She is

>>95326297
But will her bush be making another appearance?

>>95325879
Just get an American friend to order a bunch of cheap used books and bulk ship them or wait for the omnibus

>>95323288
Just wondering what's the difference between an omnibus and a library edition

>>95316909
I don't like it.

I'm not normally one to advocate CGI in the place of practical effects, but they should have just put a mocap sleeve on his forearm and added the Right Hand of Doom in post-production.

>>95326545
I've got two American "friends" from years ago. One's a pot-smoking homeless libertarian and the other has turned into the weirdo southerner kind of Christian. I wouldn't trust either one of them with money to buy Hellboy books.

>>95322022
Only Emmerich is a fucking hack who needs to fuck off.

>>95326600
Such is life, just ask a bunch of ebay seller so if they would be willing to ship internationally then. Books aren't too large and I think there might be a discount for shipping books, there is at least in the US.

>>95325999
To be fair it came out in the same year as The Dark Knight

I don't like how angular his Hand of Doom looks.

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>>95323220
Hellboy is pretty great. Start with the first volume but know that it gets better. The first one was written by Mignola and Byrne so it's a bit different with more text. If you want to get a feel for it I suggest reading some one-shots in volume 3 and 4.

>>95326191
>>95322383
>>95322343

It was stated in the comics; after the battle of Camlan all of Mordred's sons were murdered by Arthur's followers, but a girl survived (because she wasn't a threat to the kingdom) and lived on. HB's mother was the last decendant of that witch, and since the British monarchy doesn't have a thing to do with King Arthur (since they're French), Hellboy is the rightful heir.
Sounds a bit hamfisted, but it IS justified in the comic.

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>>95325935
Better quality.

just hope they get Doug back as Abe

>>95328354
They will probably not.

>>95323495
Some one should storytime some Hellboy

>>95313182
Is this supposed to be a younger HB than what was seen in the first movie?

>>95328354
They could probably get away with Abe not even showing up, making it more distinct from the other movies as well as saving on the effects budget.

>>95325447
I have the weirdest problem with Harbour's version.
His brow. It looks menacing. He looks like a villain.

>>95329026
Yeah. I think the slight V shape makes him look angry

>>95320843
That's the Chris Roberson run, pretty much the worst ever

Not saying Hellboy doesn't quip, just saying the example ain't that good

>>95325948
Not really. I read the chronological one, and in some off-shoot something an artist fucked up and you could see SOME of it for a panel, if I recall correctly. But yeah, there's a point made never to show the palm.

>>95329116
That's a pretty typical Hellboy quip though, short and sardonic

>>95322387
I liked Ronan.

>>95328527

It's a flat reboot, with more of a horror emphasis.

>>95329026
well, he is a demon...

>>95329341
Yeah, but only-half demon, I like his humble sincere character. This one looks threatening.

>>95329658
It could be a good juxtaposition between his looks and his character, to really make you register that you're looking at a demon who's acting friendly, and not just your typical colourful alien that you see in other comicbook movies. He'll look gruff and dangerous which puts off the new guys, but everyone who's been around even a little while knows that he just can't help his looks, beyond sanding the horns down.

>>95329794
I wonder if he'll have hooves and if they'll show it, or just go full Liefeld.
I hope they do that, that would be great. A frightening character, up until the moment he says "Hey, how you doin'?". I just hope they don't make it too cliché. I wonder how Daimio will fit into the whole thing, and I would love to see the were-panther design.
I can't really imagine Alice, though. I mean if they go full old-guard Mab, and go with the black and blue gown, sure, but I can't see how the angelic light-colored clothing of Queen Alice could work on a black chick.
I'm not too stoked about the casting for The Blood Queen, either. I mean, shitty actress, doesn't have the sex-appeal or charisma to pull of a character that seduces and threatens at the same time as well.
The director is a great choice for introducing witches though. Imagine Descent style witches, basically, the dark room, with barely any light, huddled together and plotting. Maybe even the scene where they let out TBQ.
I hope they don't go full horror-style quick editting with the action scenes, though. It might be a bit too much.
I'm quite curious about the movie, but there are so many things that can easily go wrong. I don't care about FAITHFUL adaptation, as long as they do it well. If they use Daimio well, fuck yeah, good on ya, I don't care that he and Red never met.

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>>95313466

>>95321610

Del Toro loves lovecraftian shit beyond all else. He's just sad that his Mountains of Madness movie never got made so he just goes as far as he can elsewhere.

I just wish that hellboy 2 got more of the cthulhu side of things instead of muh ancient army.

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I'm hyped and nitpicking autists need to leave right fucking now.

>>95329895
I mean Milla Jovovic is by no means a good actress, but no sex-appeal? Dang son. To each his own I guess, but she is prime sexy scary milf material right now.

>>95330971

>mila is prime sexy scary milf

Shes gross. I cant find anything attractive about her.

>>95313182
The hand being shiny/glossy is a bit off desu, but other than that it's fucking perfect. I'm also really happy that they're using practical makeup and not motion capture

>>95323164
>sits with kid as he does his own Hellboy makeup session
>they go get burgers together, in make up

Ron is too good for this sinful world

>>95318292
Nice reddit spacing and ellipsis blogposting, retard.

>>95322080
i remember that. I found that very sad actually...

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>>95322340
Art is so good

>>95334364
Yeah, Mignola evolved into something else through hellboy, his watercolor stuff for the finale is gorgeous.

>>95313182
But what does his voice sound like? Ron Perlman's voice was absolutely fucking perfect.

>>95328354
He's doing that Fishman movie with Del Toro, in which he's playing almost exactly the same character GDT rewrote Abe into for the movies. I like Doug Jones, but that Abe was all kinds of wrong

>>95330591
After seeing what he did with Hellboy, I wouldn't trust him with Mountains. He has a certain style and flavor that's unique, but it wouldn't fit well with Lovecraft

>>95334997

I thought the he totally excelled on thr HB films..

I have no idea where.. the shape of water.. will fit into the series.

>>95335160
He excelled in making a movie of his own vision, but it's not at all like the comics, as this thread has discussed a few times. I say I wouldn't trust him with Mountains of Madness because he couldn't stick to the relatively simple Mignola comics. Lovecraft is even harder to adapt. I don't need a hamfisted love story or a metro fishman in my horror

>>95325553
I can relate but I've only got the first one so I guess I'll leave it with the on top of the shelf so it'll look good, kinda frustrated though because I don't know if it's better to get the omnibuses or the left library editions from now on

>>95326167
They're paperback so I'm hoping they're closer to the usagi saga trades which are really good

>>95325935
Those are some small legs.

>>95323831
if we get baba yaga in the new movie I will cum buckets

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>>95323775
>Those Steven Tyler Legs

>>95337670
From the official Twitter:
>Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.

>release date Jan 2019

Well...

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>>95337742
>an ancient sorceress bent on revenge

Baba Yaga not quite confirmed. Not sure who I'd like to see on screen more.