Hellboy
SHE HAS NO HEAD! – Fourth Annual Awesome Women In Comics Holiday Gift List, 2012
Welcome back to my annual female positive comics holiday gift list!
So the holidays are upon us again and you’ve decided that in these tough economic times you want to support the comic industry by giving everyone on your list sweet comics. And not only that, but you want to take it one step further and only give female positive comics…well, in that super specific case you’ve found the right list.
You think Saga is going to make the list? Here's a hint, it totally is.
Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 291: Hellboy: The Third Wish #1
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be showing pages that are either scary or are part of “scary” issues (as scary as a comic can be, of course), because it’s October! Today’s page is from Hellboy: The Third Wish #1, which was published by Dark Horse and is cover dated July 2002. This scan is from Hellboy: Library Edition volume 3, which was published in October 2009. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 290: Hellboy: Conqueror Worm #4
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be showing pages that are either scary or are part of “scary” issues (as scary as a comic can be, of course), because it’s October! Today’s page is from Hellboy: Conqueror Worm #4, which was published by Dark Horse and is cover dated August 2001. This scan is from Hellboy: Library Edition volume 3, which was published in October 2009. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 289: Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be showing pages that are either scary or are part of “scary” issues (as scary as a comic can be, of course), because it’s October! Today’s page is from Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3, which was published by Dark Horse and is cover dated August 1996. This scan is from Hellboy: Library Edition volume 1, which was published in May 2008. Enjoy!
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What I bought – 13 July 2011
What a bore it is, waking up in the morning always the same person. (Jeremy Leven, from Creator)
What I bought – 27 October 2010
The great French revolutionary hero Danton, who will lose his head during the ‘Terror,’ is making a rueful remark. ‘… But Robespierre and the people,’ he observes, ‘are virtuous.’ Danton is on a London stage, not really Danton at all but an actor speaking lines of Georg Büchner in English translation; and the time is not then, but now. I don’t know if the thought originated in French, German, or English, but I do know that it seems astonishingly bleak – because what it means, obviously, is that the people are like Robespierre. Danton may be the hero of the revolution, but he also likes wine, fine clothes, whores; weaknesses which (the audience instantly sees) will enable Robespierre, a good actor in a green coat, to cut him down. When Danton is sent to visit the widow, old Madame Guillotine with her basket of heads, we know it isn’t really on account of any real or trumped-up political crimes. He gets the chop (miraculously staged) because he is too fond of pleasure. Epicureanism is subversive. The people are like Robespierre. They distrust fun. (Salman Rushdie, from Shame)
