NYCC: Mignola, Allie & More Discuss "Hellboy in Hell"

[CBR News]

Creator Mike Mignola, editor Scott Allie and artists Tyler Crook and James Harren discussed the long-awaited "Hellboy in Hell," "B.P.R.D.," the "Joe Golem" movie deal and the greater Hellboy universe at NYCC 2012.


Full article here.

[Middenway]

There will be more Lobster Johnson, a Hellboy one-shot drawn by Kevin Nowlan and a two parter from Sebastian Fiumara.

Correction:
There will be more Lobster Johnson, a one-shot drawn by Kevin Nowlan and a two parter from Sebastian Fiumara.

[Crunch C.]

Mignola drawing Hellboy is the only Hellboy I'm interested in! Looking forward to this! It blows me away that an astounding artist like Mignola would have confidence issues!

[ER Prest]

Mignola drawing Hellboy is the only Hellboy I'm interested in! Looking forward to this! It blows me away that an astounding artist like Mignola would have confidence issues!

Fegredo did a bang up job the arcs he did. I'm both happy and sad Mignola is back on art duties, really excited for his stuff. I just hope Fegredo sticks around for some minis and side stories though.

[UnravThreads]

Mignola drawing Hellboy is the only Hellboy I'm interested in! Looking forward to this! It blows me away that an astounding artist like Mignola would have confidence issues!

Mignola's never been all that confident from what I can get from interviews, and aside from cover duties (trades, single issues, etc) he'd not done Hellboy comics for a couple of years.

As an aside, I find this quote interesting:

"Hellboy in Hell" allows Mignola to write and draw the Hellboy universe's version of Hell.

As far as whether "Hellboy" and "B.P.R.D." will affect each other, Mignola said he doesn't want to write a book where you have to read one to understand what's happening in the other.

That might be true now Hellboy is in Hell, but for early B.P.R.D. and a number of the upcoming series, it's still firmly a case of to get the full picture, you need to read pretty much everything. B.P.R.D.'s earlier stories are very strongly tied to Hellboy, and without Hellboy those stories couldn't have happened as they did. So to really get an understanding of what's going on, Hellboy and B.P.R.D. must be read, and then on a deeper level the non-core B.P.R.D. titles (1946/1947) tie into events that are still going on, some of the spin-offs like Abe Sapien and Lobster Johnson expand on or lead from/into other situations.

Not that I'm complaining, but Hellboy and B.P.R.D. are pretty inseparable, at least as far as B.P.R.D. is concerned. I don't think you need to read B.P.R.D. to get Hellboy, though at times (particularly during Fegredo's tenure) B.P.R.D. events are referenced.

But hey, Baltimore's pretty separate, as far as I'm aware. That's a good comic.

[thb]

Correction:
There will be more Lobster Johnson, a one-shot drawn by Kevin Nowlan and a two parter from Sebastian Fiumara.

More Kevin Nowlan is always welcome! I'd love if we could get a book or two a year from him in the Mignolaverse.