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Donald
03-07-2008, 02:26 PM
Dark Horse preview is up:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13277

featuring

Abe #5

B.P.R.D.: THE ECTOPLASMIC MAN

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), John Arcudi (W), and Ben Stenbeck (A)

On sale June 18
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
One-shot

This one-shot comic tells the origin of Johann Kraus—corresponding with Johann’s appearance in the 2008 feature film Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The Ectoplasmic Man is the ideal introduction to one of the most peculiar members of the remarkable Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.

B.P.R.D.: WAR ON FROGS #1

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), John Arcudi (W), Herb Trimpe (A), and Dave Stewart (C)

On sale June 5
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
One-shot

Legendary artist Herb Trimpe (The Incredible Hulk) joins regular B.P.R.D. writer John Arcudi and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola for the first of four one-shots which pick up from the March-April B.P.R.D. feature on MySpace/Dark Horse Presents. These stories are set before the events of B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame, chronicling the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense’s fight against the frog monsters.

As the frog cult spreads across America, Roger the Homunculus returns to the site of the B.P.R.D.’s first clash with the frog creatures— the ruins of Cavendish Hall, where Hellboy, Abe, and Liz first encountered both the frogs and Rasputin (Hellboy: Seed of Destruction)— to track down the final pieces of the puzzle of the Cavendish family.

Cavendish family puzzle solved!

Herb's an interesting choice....

Maija
03-07-2008, 02:44 PM
Those are some fun-sounding one-shots!

B.P.R.D.: THE ECTOPLASMIC MAN

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), John Arcudi (W), and Ben Stenbeck (A)

Ben Stenbeck also did the art on "The Yearning", the comic bundled with Blood and Iron. That one was toned to the animated style of course, but he can go a lot grittier. He did some nice juicy zombies in Mike Richardson's Living With The Dead. A long while back I posted these links to Hellboy-related pin-ups he had done (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=164841).

Kelly Tindall
03-07-2008, 03:00 PM
Very excited for both.

pimpernel
03-07-2008, 06:17 PM
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but i've been meaning to say that dagger from the Drowning looks a lot like the one from the Shadow movie IMO.

Jr. Wormwood
03-08-2008, 12:59 AM
That War on Frogs cover is amazing!

Can't wait to see Roger back in action, even if it is a story set a little in the past.

Neil Hill
03-08-2008, 09:44 AM
These all look and sound great, and the idea of other artists playing in the BPRD sandbox appealing, however, just as long as Guy Davis returns to us right quick-like!!