Thursday, April 25, 2019

Opinion: The Hellboy Saga Is an Unprecedented Accomplishment

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2019 has been a big year for the comic book industry as a whole. Conan the Barbarian returned to Marvel Comics. IDW completely rebooted the Transformers line. Major event comics like Heroes in Crisis and War of the Realms have ushered in major changes for their respective universes. But none of these developments can measure up to what Dark Horse Comics and creator Mike Mignola accomplished with the release of BPRD: The Devil You Know #15. This issue brought the entire Hellboy and BPRD saga to a close, capping off a story that began 25 years ago. It's difficult to understate how unique and impressive an accomplishment this is.

The Hellboy franchise as we know it began humbly enough with the release of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1. While that story featured an epic battle between good and evil and between the mortal realm and dark, Lovecraftian gods, there was little sense that readers were in for a journey that would ultimate span two and a half decades and hundreds of comics. Only in hindsight does it become obvious that Mignola was telling one mammoth story about a demon brought into the world to serve as its destroyer, only to instead become its redeemer at the end of all things.

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