Hellboy leaves behind the familiar strangeness of the B.P.R.D. for even stranger places. He meets a two-hundred-year-old witch doctor and talks to lions, but that's only the beginning of Hellboy's weirdest journey yet. Mike Mignola takes his most celebrated creation from Africa to the bottom of the sea, in the next stage of a very unusual life.
Here is the enemy I don't like, the huge talking fish and the way he deceitfully granted 3 wishes to the sisters and destroys them with trickery. All 3 sisters get terrible wishes and wind up dead. Yes, this story is definitely creepy. I can just imagine what the Hellboy movie will be like. Yikes! Read Full Review
The artwork as usual is stunning, and like the work in previous adventures, it serves as more than mere spectacle—though the scene where the wave sweeping Hellboy into the ocean is breathtaking despite it not being a splash page (pun not intended). Though this issue seems to have more dialogue than previous books, the most important words are seen in the artwork—such as when Hellboy and his final captor express each other's sorrow. Read Full Review
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