Baltimore: The Plague Ships

Title: Baltimore - The Plague ships

Genre: Horror

Story: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden

Art: Ben Stenbeck

Publisher: Dark Horse

Year: 2010

Issues: 01-05 of 05

Rate: 85/100

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PROMO: After a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with vampires. Lord Henry Baltimore, a soldier determined to wipe out the monsters, fights his way through bloody battlefields, ruined plague ships, exploding zeppelins, and submarine graveyards on the hunt for the creature who's become his obsession.

Hellboy - The Chained Coffin and Others

Title: The Chained Coffin and Others

Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror

Story: Mike Mignola

Art: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse

Issues/Pages: 137

Year: 1998.

Rate: 94/100

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Promo: This third and thickest Hellboy collection compiles all material not included in Seed of Destruction or Wake the Devil. Mike Mignola's story notes accompany the long out-of-print one-shots "Wolves of Saint August" and "The Corpse and the Iron Shoes," as well as "A Christmas Underground," "The Chained Coffin," in color for the first time, and "Almost Colossus," with new story pages. This 176-page collection includes a pinup gallery featuring Kevin Nowlan, Duncan Fegredo, and others, as well as an all-new tale.


REVIEW: The Chained Coffin and Others je kolekcija kratkih, one-shot Hellboy priča pablikovanih sredinom devedestih godina. Mnogi se kunu u mignoline kratke storije nazivajući ih esencijalnim Hellboy štivom i dok se ja sa tim ne mogu u potpunosti složiti, dar autora da na ograničenom broju strana deluje krajnje efektno i upečatljivo je neosporan.
Kao i uvek, većina stvari je inspirisana drevnim legendama Britanije, Balkana i Istočne Evrope a kad to i nije slučaj, autorovo pripovedanje stvara upravo tu identičnu iluziju realnog, zastrašujuće mogućeg , pritom nas podsećajući na naše stare, na naše bake i deke što su nas svakodnevno plašili razno-raznim "glupostima" iz svog kraja.
Neke od priča imaju univerzalnu vrednost, poput ingeniozne The Corpse, dok su neke ipak vredne pre svega ljudima koji Hellboya već vole, pa će im "istorijski bitne" scene biti od posebnog značaja. u The Baba Yaga imamo priliku da prisustvujemo čuvenoj sceni izbijanja oka najpoznatijoj slovenskoj veštici, dok nam, na primer, naslovni komad odaje ponešto o poreklu našeg crvenog heroja... Almost Colosus je isto odlična, baveći neodoljivom pyromancer-kom Liz, dok The Wolves of Saint August ima sve kvalitete klasične Hellboy priče.

Svakako preporučljivo fanovima, dok novajlije svoju prvu ljubav ipak treba da traže negde drugde.

Hellboy - Wake the Devil

Title: Hellboy - Wake the Devil

Genre: Action/Adventure

Story: Mike Mignola

Art: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse

Issues/Pages: 144 pages

Year: 1997

Rate: 96/100

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PROMO: A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the original nobleman vampire. Nazi scientists prepare for the return of their occult master and the end of the world, and Hellboy confronts his purpose on earth.

Hellboy - Seed of Destruction

Title: Hellboy - Seed of Destruction

Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror

Story: Mike Mignola, John Byrne

Art: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse

Issues/Pages: 130 pages

Year: 1994

Rate: 97/100

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PROMO: When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Hellboy, the world's greatest paranormal investigator, is the only thing standing between sanity and insanity as he battles the mystical forces of the netherworld and a truly bizarre plague of frogs. And if he fails, we all fail with him!