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Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil
by: Mike Mignola

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781593070953
ISBN: 1593070950
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: December 10, 2003
Publisher: Dark Horse
Sales Rank: 22461
Studio: Dark Horse

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Product Description:
A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the original nobleman vampire. Nazi scientists prepare for the return of their occult master and the end of the world, and Hellboy confronts his purpose on earth.

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The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Sound like something out of the X-Files? Well, it's one better; it's Hellboy, the world's greatest paranormal investigator. A mysteriously conjured demon, he's essentially a big red guy who goes looking for trouble. The catch is that he's not really the best investigator; let's face it, he's no Agent Mulder. But Wake the Devil always manages to maintain its creepy edge, in no small part due to Mignola's art, which may seem familiar. He did the set designs for Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Mignola Takes on Writing Duties
NEGATIVES
- Mignola doesn't seem to handle the story as good as John Byrne, who wrote the first Hellboy collection. Mignola is a way better artist than he is a writer
- There are many plot moments and entire scenes that make me wonder why they were included at all. There is a scene where Liz accidentally causes another teammate's death, which would be great for tension and character development, but it never gets paid off. Liz just doesn't appear again after that scene--the only payoff we get is Hellboy reflecting on how everything in the mission went wrong. There was an entire subplot about Rasputin's Nazi followers and this talking head that they find... but it never contributes to the main arc of the story. They just seem like random scenes thrown in with no discretion, and really take away much needed page space from a story that is was already a bit convoluted.
- Again, due to the major ... Read More

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- marvelous
Hellboy is just light-years ahead of almost every other comic I've ever read. The plotting and dialogue is almost literary and the art is just fantastic.

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- Graphic SF Reader
Some good, old fashioned monster hunting. A death in New York leads to a vampire in Romania, the possible offspring of something a lot worse.

The team gets a new member when a homunculus is discovered, and finally, have to deal with that witchy-poo Baba Yaga and some other strangeness.
More top notch Hellboy goodness.

Rating:

- Way Better Than "Seed of Destruction"
Wake The Devil is better than its predecessor, "Seed of Destruction". The writing is far more cohesive, entertaining, and flows without the hiccups that plagued "Seed".

Rasputin returns with another presence from beyond calling the shots, but Mignola also works in a few more historical or legendary figures, including Dracula (or a stand-in for him), Baba Yaga and the Furies, as well as introducing new characters like the goddess Hecate, the evil industrialist Roderick Zinco, the "brain in a jar" mad scientist Herman Von Klempt and several other well-characterized Nazis. Mignola also adds a touch more overt humor to this volume along with some terrific banter and a sense of history between Hellboy and his B.P.R.D. compatriots, hints more at Hellboy's mysterious destiny without veering into "chosen one" cliches and basically maintains and even widens the eclectic mix of genre influences while seeming more ... Read More

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