Anytime I read Hellboys speech bubbles, I imagine Ron Pearlmans voice. He’s still the perfect actor for that role.

You could do a whole series on hellboy, love the lore

You can see why Mignola & Del Toro go so well together, their fav tropes are identical.

The corpse is one of my favourite Hellboy stories. And you just summed up why it is so great and why Hellboy is such an enduring character.

I always viewed Mignolaverse villains as not power hungry but rather those who serve a higher purpose in the hopes of some eternal reward. Sure you have the vindictive Baba Yaga, the power hungry and blood thirsty Nimue, but Martin Gilfryd aka Memnaan Saa, Gustav Strobl, Rasputin, etc. All seemed to me like prophets doing the work of their master in the hopes they will get a seat at the table so to speak

Ahhh, Hellboy, one of my favourite characters!

Since you started covering Hellboy , I think Roger the Homonculus would be a great subject , he is one of my favorite characters in the entire series .

classic comics and heck that first movie was pretty fun!

These Hellboy videos you do are seriously cathartic for me as a longtime fan. I've been a diehard Hellboy fan since junior high, and even when I met people who DID like comic books, I've never found someone who really delved into the Mignola's world like this. I really do think there's something special about how the author balances old world narrative techniques with serialized structure, contemporary art and palatable storytelling. I think that's part of why Hellboy has remained so niche... you have to be ok with a cut-and-dry short story playing a major role in the overall arc, and ok with Jack Curby comic tropes coinciding with ancient mythology and Lovecraftian fiction. This is probably why the series all but unfilmable, and why the movies didn't translate the source material very well. The humor doesn't come from winking at the audience, just like the horror element is played completely straight. As the reader, you're laughing with Hellboy's sarcastic quips, but never losing sight of the incredible scope and character depth. The narratives are simple, but there's almost always something a bit deeper about what Mignola does. One frame could totally change the meaning of a sequence, just like understanding the various myths and legends at the foundation of these stories add tremendous weight to the narrative. So anyway, thanks for taking the time to unpack these things... It's like having a conversation I couldn't have up till now.

I was hoping this channel would make a hellboy video. Really cool.

Thank you matt draper for talking about my favorite comic book character ever.

I also enjoy the Lobster Johnson books. He's a comic book character in the Hellboy universe thats stories are in ww2. Another decent one shot by Mike Mignola is The Amazing Screw-On Head. There's a pilot animation of it on KZfaq that's pretty good.

hellboy got me back into comics in early 2000's after the 90s killed my desire for this format i grew up loving

Oh my Lord , I never realized how deep that story was !! Hellboy is truly one of the best comic book series written ( and my favorite one too ) !

I've said it before & I'll say it again. You are my favorite youtuber...

The crooked man was one of my favorite short stories by far

if i were a kid, i'd probably call him "heckboy"

This is my favorite video about hellboy on the internet

Great video as always. As I have commented on the It Follows video, I’m not a horror fan. With that said, Hellboy and just the Mignola-verse in general are some of my favorite comics I have ever read. Really enjoy the Del Toro films as well and I can’t wait to see what the reboot has in store (even though Del Toro should’ve been allowed to finish his series with Hellboy III).

Great as always!

YESSSS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! More Hellboy please!

I didn't know this was a 2 page serial. But when you read it, you very quickly notice that it has very interesting pacing. I really liked it when Grugach's grudge became the cause for the massive disasters that followed much later.

Excellent review Hellboy is one of my all time favorite characters the storytelling and world building alone is incredible this is Mike mignola's masterwork

Yess thanks for doing this. Hellboy is my fav comicbook series and character

Great video More HELLBOY PLEASE!!

Expertly made. Kudos.

Your Hellboy videos are excellent! Great work!

Beautiful!

DRAPER GANG!! I've read a lot of early trades of Hellboy when Borders was still around. This video makes me wanna revisit it.

omg seriously loving your content!!new fan, sure to be a long time fan!

this is exactly the kind of video essay i've been wanting, thank you for this 👌👌

Mike Mignola's work is very reminiscent of the late Bernie Wrightson. I would love to see Mignola's take on Swamp Thing. Maybe one day we will get a Swamp Thing graphic novel from him. (Just Wishing)

Yes! Been wondering when you’d eventually do Hellboy. It’s my favourite comic and I’m thrilled to see you doing my favourite short story. Great stuff man

Yay new videos

The Chained Coffin and Others. The first and last book I bought from Borders Books (remember them?). After that, there was no going back to capes and tights

Thanks!

This was excellent

GOOD GODS! your channel is criminaly underated! its a must sub

Dude.... I just found this channel.... keep going man I love this. Rob and bennie just dont cover these old stories the way I wish they would. I wanna learn about the comics that brought us to where we are... and even though hes literally called "comicstorian" he doesnt really help me much with this history of comics... just recent stuff with an oldie thrown in here and there.

excellent review again! makes me wanna buy the series now

Hellboy never gets a break

Just got this full issue It was worth it!

YEAH!

I have not read many Mignola's works. The only one I have read is Joe Golem and the Drowned City, which is a prose novel not a graphic novel. It's good, reads like a comic book.

As good as the ongoing story for Hellboy is, I love the shorts the best. Have you read Mignola's Baltimore series?

You should do a video essay on Invincible and Deadly Class

The BEEEEEST ever

I always loved the pancakes short story

Heh finally a Hellboy video

Hellboy ; What if The Thing was a supernatural character .

I enioy watching videos of people who truely understand HB. There are so many levels to MM's work. In my opinion HB is one of the greatest anti-hero/heroes ever.

There is a companion book with biography and origin stories for almost all the characters, I highly recommend it for any fan of Hellboy and BPRD

so in essence hellboy is a dnd tiefling?

Liked 💙👍💯

And here I'm still waiting for the trailer of the reboot. Great video though

Hmmm I enjoyed the music when speaking of the Irish corpse.

I just ordered omnibus box set,never read a word from Mignola,never saw art from my own eyes,so im playin' "detective" and makin' reserach for what did i just gave money,it was one of those things that hit you and speak to you with shadowy voice "you have to get this",what i see is lot of pulp,wich is my favorite format,i see lot of my heroes,guys like Robert E Howard,Clark Ashton Smith,Lovecraft and dark poetry from Poe,and im quite sure that i will fall in love with this character (movies are another thing,i saw them zilion times),so im askin' you dear people am i wrong ?

My personal favorite of the short stories is The Nature of the Beast.

I Like Hellboy: Animated

“Whats that in my subscription notifications? “Is that Matt Draper?” “HE’S GOT A NEW VIDEO!” *BLAM BLAM*

If you think about it Hellboy and Nightcrawler are similar. They both look like demons with Hellboy actually being one but are good people.

The thing all the movies got wrong is the Fantasy, Fairytale, and gothic horror aspect, they made them more like goofy superhero movies.

I wish I was as eloquent with words like you are. I would love to do something like this for comics but I have a hard time explaining why I like certain things ya know?

Could you make a vid on Batman Earth One or the Ultimate Spider-Man Series I love reading new depictions on characters I grew up with; (And since there are no videos about the Earth One Series as a whole I’d love your thoughts on it.)

Damn I love Hellboy one of my favorite non Marvel and DC superheroes I need to read more of his comics I loved the movies and now I want to get into the comics so sad Ron Perlman Guillermo Del Toro Hellboy 3 isn't gonna happen

I’ve read this it’s literally fucking 50c and has loads of copies.

You don't see comics like Hellboy from Marvel and DC anymore or really any other publishers. There out there but they feel more like a niche instead of there heyday in the 1950's and 60's.

Hellboy you say?👀

from which comic exactly is the image at 5:25?

What song playing in the end?

Halfman half Hell

The corpse storyline could also have been borrowed from an ancient Hindu tale "Vikram and betaal" where the king Vikram carries an animated skeleton to its grave and along the way the corpse asks him questions to which either he has to give the correct answer else he'd fall dead. And along the way he has many different adventures.

I want to reed hellboy. Were do I start?

Very seldom can you find Hellboy being discussed by other YT Comics channel

Where ma dawg abe sapien at

I never really understood the appeal of The Corpse. I remember getting into Hellboy about two years ago and picking up "the chained coffin & others" TPB, and then reading the Corpse. I remember one thing that stuck out to me was the layout of the panels when Hellboy checks his watch and the corpse just kinda appears. That page just REALLY bugged me for some reason, and I found the plot to be kinda mediocre. There are better short stories out there, so I don't see why the Corpse gets all the attention. But I mean, enjoy whatever you want, man.

H.P. Lovecraft😍😍😍

Ew he knew Alice as a baby

Hell boy is a perfect fit for Zack Snyder esque movie material. Style over substance

Hellboy ; What if The Thing was a supernatural character .