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[orringrey]

thwhtGuardian - I haven't read the DHP #8 yet, but Beasts of Burden is a really, really great series pretty much top to bottom.

[thwhtGuardian]

thwhtGuardian - I haven't read the DHP #8 yet, but Beasts of Burden is a really, really great series pretty much top to bottom.

There's a collection of it out there isn't there? I think I remember seeing it while browsing TFAW before, would that be a decent place to start reading?

[orringrey]

Yeah, it's the perfect place. It has all the stories so far except for the Hellboy team-up and the most recent DHP story, and is a really attractive collection, to boot.

[Middenway]

I'd just like to say how much I love Kate. Her character development through the series has been wonderful.

Yeah, she's my favourite character, so this story really struck a chord for me.

[Bosco685]

Yeah, she's my favourite character, so this story really struck a chord for me.

Sounds like I need to pick this up.

[Angilas-Man]

Yeah, it's the perfect place. It has all the stories so far except for the Hellboy team-up and the most recent DHP story, and is a really attractive collection, to boot.

The Beasts of Burden hardcover is one of the favorite books in my collection. I mean, the content is great (goes without saying), but when I received it I was surprised that it was this impressive, oversized edition for really not a lot of money.

[the goddamn batman]

um, an aside, I was reminded of when reading this:

the flowers are Easter Lilies not Lily of the Valley (which Scott stated them as in a recent letters column.)

[Jackson Brody]

What I'm really wondering is which British celebrities made it out alive? I hope Paul McCartney is safe.

[thwhtGuardian]

What I'm really wondering is which British celebrities made it out alive? I hope Paul McCartney is safe.

He has been touring a lot lately so he may have been out of country for the attack.

[agent_graves]

I was at one of my lcs's today picking up a few things, and I really wanted to check out Brian Wood's "The Massive", but then I realized that, I would be paying $7.99 for only about 8-10pgs of story content that I was actually interested in, I mean, of course I'd read any Hellboy or BPRD related stories within DHP's, but, even then, the price is way to high to be just following one story, although, I'am interested in the Lobster Johnson upcoming story within DHP's, so I might eventually cave, and pick up an issue or two...

For those that have already read DHP's #8, how was, "The Massive"??

[Kees_L]

um, an aside, I was reminded of when reading this:

the flowers are Easter Lilies not Lily of the Valley (which Scott stated them as in a recent letters column.)

Actually, you are not correct there, damn-bats.

Any of the lilies associated with growing out of where Hellboy's blood spills in the Hellboy comics until now have been described as being Lilies.

But since the first occurrence of this was made to reference "Saint Leonard as slayer of England's last dragon" in ('Hellboy: Nature of the Beast'), this reference would have to be about "Lilies-of-the-Valley" because the actual legend about this Saint Leonard is about lilies-of-the-valley growing out of where this dragonslayer's blood was spilled.

Also, "Easter Lilies" as a household name denotes to cultivated *garden variety* lilies, more rather than the actual plant species, because the actual ones, being the 'Lilium Longiflorum' would have been native to only Japan and Taiwan.

Where another much cultivated or common variety would be the Madonna Lily or 'Lilium Candidum', native to the Balkan and West-Asia. Often related to the Blessed Virgin Mary, both as to being the basis for the Fleur-de-lis motif.

Whereas "Lilies" can be to mean garden plants or either actual existing plants as in the wild.

So you see, damn-bats, gonna be a lotta lilies out there...

[the goddamn batman]

Lily of the Valley is a very specific flower, and it isn't the one being drawn in the comics...

[Kees_L]

Lily of the Valley is a very specific flower, and it isn't the one being drawn in the comics...

I can go along with that, since what's being drawn both as shown, both as mentioned would be "lilies". No more, no less. For a fact.

BUT also, in "Hellboy: Nature of the Beast" the origin of any such gets explained, as being to relate to the legend of Saint-Leonard, taking place at the particular English woods as mentioned. For a fact.

Being why the lilies in Hellboy refer to both getting spelled out as being "lilies" for where Hellboy's blood spills, as well as the lilies growing out from St. Leonard's blood spilled blood, as being Lilies-of-the-Valley. For a fact.

Just like if the character Rasputin would be referring to a uniquely French noble lady getting beheaded at the guillotine, instead of a Russian self-made zombie monk - then the character wouldn't have been named Rasputin, but Marie-Antoinette with most likely wearing a white wig, instead of any black beard.

See what I mean?

[agent_graves]

Well, guess nobody cared for "The Massive"...I just found out that Francesco Francavilla's "Black Beetle" will have a 3pt story starting in DHP #11, so, now that I have three stories that I'm interested in, the price doesn't bother me as much now.

[the goddamn batman]

I just haven't gotten around to reading it yet.