The
end of The B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know limited series brought Hellboy back from
the dead. It seemed to be the last Hellboy story but we all know it wasn’t. Mike
Mignola had suggested he was going to paint and so some personal projects but as
is the case with life things change. He knew he wasn’t going to draw anything
other than the covers for Devil but create a body of work beyond Hellboy. That
involved him drawing a political cartoon after the Parkland school shooting in
Florida. He also worked on a non-Hellboy thing that he scrapped after getting 19
pages done. So while he isn’t drawing any Hellboy projects any time soon Dark
Horse Comics did announce three new titles connected to the Hellboy universe.
The first book is the five-issue Crimson Lotus miniseries featuring Lobster
Johnson from Mignola, John Arcudi and Mindy Lee. The series will cover 30 years
of her life. The five-issue Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956, from Mignola, Chris
Roberson, Yishan Li, Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming will show an early
Hellboy mission. The year end Hellboy Winter Special 2018 will contain a Mignola
and Ben Stenbeck story, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s B.P.R.D.: Vampire and a
Tonci Zonjic story about Lobster Johnson. |