Some more Roger with or without pants in 2011!

[timbolton]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=29935

And Nowlan's cows in "Buster Oakley Gets His Wish"...

Could 2011 be the best Hellboy yet? Will 2012 be even more earth shattering? Who knows!

But there are probably spoilers in that above link, so don't be peeking if you don't want any leaking.

[Kelly Tindall]

I'm thrilled Nowlan's doing a one-shot. He's apparently really slow, which I suppose is what keeps him from doing more than covers, but his sequentials are fantastic.

[Kees_L]

Hellboy is getting Kevin Nowlan full interiors? And multiple variant covers to the stunning Fegredo/Mignola finale by the Hellboard's own Francesco Francavilla? And more Corben wonderment?

That is gobsmackin' buff if you ask me.

[Gary_B]

That is gobsmackin' buff if you ask me.

I couldn't have said it better.

Kees_L = wordsmith

[Kees_L]

But he sucks nickels at softball!

[brentmcd]

Mike Mignola: "I kind of look at it as my semi-retirement; this is where I settle down, and I'm working full time as a comics guy, but I've done a bunch of different stuff now. Enough stuff that I can kind of go, 'You know what I really want to do? I want to sit down and draw my comic,'" he added. "I made up a comic where I can do whatever I want, why don't I go back and do that? That seems like a really nice way to spend my days."

You know, I can't help but have a huge smile on my face when I read that. So happy for Mike. What a lucky (and talented) guy. Obviously he's earned the right to do whatever he wants in his "Mignolaverse" -- really jazzed that he has decided to get back to the drawing board. Hope he enjoys it as much as we surely will. :biggrin:

[Middenway]

I'm pretty sure I read some Hellboy timeline or something somewhere, where in the fifties it says Hellboy dealt with either a talking cow or a giant cow... Not sure which. I just remember reading it and thinking, "That sounds really odd. I'd like to see that." And I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to be seeing in Buster Oakley Gets His Wish. So I guess I get my wish too:wink: (Also love the cover with the big 25)

Cool to find out Roger's going to be rounding out the collection of The Ectoplasmic Man and The Dead Remembered. Is there anyone out there that doesn't love Roger?

And then there's the Mignola-drawn stuff. In the Strange Places trade Mignola described The Island as the end of the first chapter of Hellboy's life. The Fury is the end of the second chapter. And now we'll launch into the third chapter in a very different format. With Mignola saying, "I kind of look at it as my semi-retirement; this is where I settle down" I can't help but think this will also be the final chapter in Hellboy's life. He's always said Hellboy was a finite story, and it feels like we're moving towards that ending... even if the ending is ten to fifteen years away.

Though I wonder when we're going to get that story about Hellboy going from the island in The Island to England in that tiny boat (Mike mentioned this a long time ago, and we saw a glimpse of that moment in The Storm #1, which makes me think it's still planned). And I hope Duncan is going to be drawing it.

[Jason Abbadon]

But he sucks nickels at softball!

Softball dont save the world, pal.

...well okay, that one time, but not generally.

[timbolton]

I'm pretty sure I read some Hellboy timeline or something somewhere, where in the fifties it says Hellboy dealt with either a talking cow or a giant cow... Not sure which. I just remember reading it and thinking, "That sounds really odd. I'd like to see that." And I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to be seeing in Buster Oakley Gets His Wish. So I guess I get my wish too:wink: (Also love the cover with the big 25)
Great memory!

Just checked the Hellboy: The Companion
...and I know Scott and HB crew will hate this - fans quoting from the book they see as a mixed blessing (so apologies to them)

P.165

"1952
August-September
With Professor Bruttenholm, Hellboy investigates several hauntings in the United States and Canada, including a barn haunted by a giant cow."

Can't wait!

What will pantless Roger be up to?

[Angilas-Man]

As amazing as all that other news is the biggest shock for me was that after The Fury Hellboy abandons the miniseries format and becomes a "regular series" - albiet one where their could be many months wait between issues.

[Middenway]

As amazing as all that other news is the biggest shock for me was that after The Fury Hellboy abandons the miniseries format and becomes a "regular series" - albiet one where their could be many months wait between issues.

It's not such a big deal. It means Hellboy is going to be published the same way it always has been, just with a different numbering system, and minus the pressure of one issue per month. You'll probably find the reasoning for this was the negative reaction to The Storm. Mignola probably wants the flexibility to be able to halt in the middle of a minseries without people getting grumpy at him. Also it concedes the point that in the ongoing Hellboy series there are no stand alone stories anymore. It's one big story.

Personally, I wouldn't mind if Dark Horse went one step further and abandoned singles altogether. Publish it like the next Marquis book, straight to trade, where chapters can be as long or short as they need them to be. That way if we're going to get the stories in irregular bursts, at least the chunks we get will be a more satisfying size, and much more of an event.

[Middenway]

Great memory!

Just checked the Hellboy: The Companion
...and I know Scott and HB crew will hate this - fans quoting from the book they see as a mixed blessing (so apologies to them)

P.165

"1952
August-September
With Professor Bruttenholm, Hellboy investigates several hauntings in the United States and Canada, including a barn haunted by a giant cow."

Can't wait!

What will pantless Roger be up to?

I've never read The Companion, so I must have read it elsewhere, probably on these boards somewhere. I would've read "giant cow" and just laughed at the thought. It sounded like fun right away.

[Middenway]

If you're interested in Francesco Francavilla's cover, you should check here every day until Christmas Eve when there will be some kind announcement: http://pulpsunday.blogspot.com/2010/12/hellboy-fury-1-variant-cover.html

[Todd H]

Wow! I absolutely love that cover. It needs to be posterized!

[orringrey]

It's always great when some new piece(s) of news manage to be so awesome that they still bowl me over even after all this time!

[Middenway]

A little tease is in here (http://www.francescofrancavilla.com/gallery/coming_in_2011.html). Possibly part of the cover for The Fury #2? If so, then Francavilla's obviously doing the third cover as well. And in the HELL(BOY) ON EARTH: Hellboy in 2011 article it said, "First of four Francesco Francavilla variant covers for various Hellboy projects"... so I can't help but wonder if The Fury is four parts long and not three as had previously been suggested.

Of course, it also said "various", so maybe (more likely) each of Francavilla's four covers will be for a different Hellboy project each time. We'll see.

Hopefully soon.

(BTW, I am aware on the cover of The Fury it says "part 1 of 3", but I'm still hoping for some kind of one-shot epilogue of sorts)

[Middenway]

Maybe it's a tease from the cover of Hellboy and the Golden Tissue Box.:biggrin:

[Middenway]

A tease from yet another Francavilla cover can be found here (http://twitpic.com/3nuqeu/full).

[imrandy85]

Maybe he'll be doing the cover for "The Storm and the Fury" TPB?

Is that Hellboy on the mug in the middle panel where the guy is looking at the corkboard?

[Middenway]

Maybe he'll be doing the cover for "The Storm and the Fury" TPB?

Is that Hellboy on the mug in the middle panel where the guy is looking at the corkboard?I think that's just the guy's fingers, though it does kinda look like Hellboy. Also, trade paperback covers are exclusively done by Mike Mignola, but that doesn't mean there can't be some alternate issue covers in a sketchbook section.

[imrandy85]

lol I see his fingers now that you said it. When I first looked at it I thought his thumb was right there and his fingers were on the side of the mug that you can't see. I guess it's like one of those is it a rabbit or a duck pictures.

Well I'm stumped on the 4th cover for Francavilla. As far as I know the only other announced Hellboy stories are Buster Oakley and Being Human. I'd assume the alternate covers for these would be done by Nolan and Corben. As you said, some kind of wrap-up or aftermath for the Fury could be cool. Perhaps the first issue of Mignola's return to art will have a Francavilla cover.