Upcoming "Mignolaverse" single issues and trades

[the goddamn batman]

Do yourself a favor. Buy the Library Editions.

You know you like Hellboy already, so to for it. Cheaper on amazon than buying two trades at full price. They're in perfect reading order and the best format for reading Hellboy and appreciating the art.

I picked up a bunch of the trades used, but now I'm buying the L.E.

[Kees_L]

Kees might be able to tell you where they fit chronologically. The events of the first two books are referenced in The Hellboy Companion, I think... Not sure. Not to mention there are a few references to those books within the comics themselves (There's one in The Drowning, I think, and that's set in 1981. Anyway, it's in the very first issue. Easy to find).

Yeah, the thing with HB: the Lost Army and HB: the Bones Of Giants will be that they got made to actually be fitting alongside the comics, as if an illustrated novel format would be cool alongside the comics for a bit.
With those two illustrated novels being to mention tidbits which would actually be part of the narrative both as the timeline (as presented in The Companion) but which might never actually get made into comic-pages. About Hellboy's first fling and about Kate Corrigan and about Hellboy proving as to having a mind of his own on a number of things.

Whereas the novel HB: the Dragon Pool would also be making mention of some actual Hellboy-Verse events along a similar vein once again.

Tidbits or event mentionings to be granting insights expansively, on the whole.

Would be my reading of it. Worth a read for anyone and the Companion would be explaining things more officially than just silly old me, so read that one too I'd say (as any of the tidbits or events related to either three novels are definitely mentioned in the Companion).

[Artie Ness]

Worth a read for anyone and the Companion would be explaining things more officially than just silly old me, so read that one too I'd say

I did read the Companion and I love it but I would say: read this forum too, it does explain things less officially but it's more fun, more exciting and totally complementary (thank you writing guys from one of the reading guys)

[Big_H]

I keep an eye out for them, but haven't stumbled on any of them yet. Someday.

Check ebay they are on there from time to time.

[thwhtGuardian]

Check ebay they are on there from time to time.

Or Amazon, I just picked up the Lost Army and the Dragon Pool for pennies a piece after this conversation reminded me that I hadn't read them yet.

[noble_enough]

New covers.. not sure where to post

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=36721

[the goddamn batman]

Both of those are awesome. The other two were also great, especially Cloonan's.

[TheBranMan788]

New covers.. not sure where to post

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=36721

lol i just posted these elsewhere before i saw this post, every time noble you're that little bit ahead lol.

[thwhtGuardian]

I'm so pumped for "The Transformation of J.H O'Donnell" and I'm totally getting that Mignola variant.

I'm assuming it's part of the monster series as it has Dracula...but could it somehow be related to the actual story as well?

[Jelio]

I'm so pumped for "The Transformation of J.H O'Donnell" and I'm totally getting that Mignola variant.

I'm assuming it's part of the monster series as it has Dracula...but could it somehow be related to the actual story as well?

I think its part of the Year of Monsters covers because I read somewhere that Mike was only doing these 12 covers this year in order to have more time to focus on Hellboy in Hell.

As for Dracula I notice he has a star of david on his clothes, does that mean he's Jewish?

[Kees_L]

As for Dracula I notice he has a star of david on his clothes, does that mean he's Jewish?

Well, if you're referring to a "Jewish Badge" as ordered upon by the German occupation in Europe during WW2 as of 1941 or 1942, such an emblem was to be worn at chest height on the left side of any most outer clothes.

Whereas the Dracula figure seems to be wearing a necklace more rather, a red band bearing an emblem or shape of some kind, which would seem shaped like a Star of David, either yellow or golden.
But the wartime Jewish badge reference seems not very immediate necessarily I would suspect.
As it could just as well be referencing some Kingly royalty or allegiance, since a number of kings or royalty buffs worldwide would have been claiming themselves of the Trojan or either ancient Kingly Lineage such as of King Solomon or King David and even Jesus as being the King of Mankind.
I mean the sign could be meaning to being Jewish, but then again it could be to mean a lot of things, as historically emblems or icons such as stars or crosses will have seen claim or use by many different faculties in cases.
Maybe the thing means "King of Butchers" or how about "Lord of the Flies"!

How would the odds be for mr. Mike to be doing a "Lord of the Flies" as one of the Monster-covers? Could be pretty swell I'd think .

EDIT: searching a little more on the subject of the "Star of David" or "hexagram", the internet is telling me that the hexagram was already common among Egyptians, Peruvians, Hindu and Buddhists for being a symbol of balance pointing both upward as downward, at a time when it wouldn't be used as commonly by Jewish peoples yet. Although the hexagram would apparently have been used by one of the Mesopotamian Jewish tribes.
The sign is said to seeing use by or under King Solomon, as it would have adorned his temple, but also it is said in ancient scriptures that King Solomon first came across the sign due to having interest in witchcraft and magic around 922 BC, with building altars for the pagan Gods Ashtoret/Astarte (female deity meaning "evening star" - which Astaroth would have been named after), Remfan (also meaning "star" or "Saturn") and Melech, something described as getting done by both Egyptians as well as what would then have been Kanaänites. In the Bible (1 Kings 11: 9 & 10) Solomon is warned not to be doing such.
Up to the 15th or 16th century the hexagram was still considered a sign having to do with paganism or kabbalist mysticism, like for example by Arabic mystics both as British Druïdism, more rather than necessarily being about Jewishness or Zion, whereas the Jewish people or either the Israeli flag didn't adopt the "star of David" sooner than in 1897 by Theodore Herzl.
This according mostly to a biblical Dutch site I found, listing these titles for reference - of which a notable amount being in English:

Literatuur:

1. ‘De Mysterie Godsdienst van Babylon, verleden en heden’, R. Woodrow, vertaling door H. Wiggers, Stichting Moria, Hilversum, 1991.

2. ‘The Two Babylons, or the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and his Wife’, Rev. Alexander Hislop, Loizeaux Brothers, New Jersey, 1916.

3. ‘The Six-Pointed Star, Research proves it’s pagan!’ O.J. Graham, New Puritan Library, Fairview, NC, Verenigde Staten van Amerika, 1984.

4. ‘Circle of Intrigue’, Texe Marrs, Living Truth Publishers, Texas, 1995.

5. [broken] Internet: http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/rc100.html.

- the link proving disfunctional apparently.

[thwhtGuardian]

I think its part of the Year of Monsters covers because I read somewhere that Mike was only doing these 12 covers this year in order to have more time to focus on Hellboy in Hell.

As for Dracula I notice he has a star of david on his clothes, does that mean he's Jewish?

I took it to be the stereotypical Dracula pendant:



Which was popularized by Bela Lugosi and the old Universal horror movies:

[Kees_L]

I took it to be the stereotypical Dracula pendant:

Which was popularized by Bela Lugosi and the old Universal horror movies:

Rats... All my work for nothin', as that seems to clearly be it!

Oh well, at least I did find an Astaroth reference, so that's sort of cool...

[thwhtGuardian]

Rats... All my work for nothin', as that seems to clearly be it!

Oh well, at least I did find an Astaroth reference, so that's sort of cool...

The mythology you dug up is pretty cool, I might do some reading into that myself, King Solomon makes for good reading.

[Jelio]

thwhtGuardian i think you're right that its probably meant to be the typical dracula pendant.

However the shape of it as drawn, also happens to be the same as the jewish star.