A review by doowopapocalypse
Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea by Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni
2.0
If you’re any sort of a Hellboy fan, this book will leave you confused, unsatisfied, wondering what you got wrong, calling your mom crying, etc. While it’s rare (very rare) that I don’t thoroughly enjoy anything in the Hellboy universe Mignola puts out, that rarity works against him here to really highlight the flaws. Gianni’s art is just ok. The story is color by numbers:
Hellboy is captured. Victorian-era science. Zombies. Allusions to classic literature. God-serpents. Hit things with giant hand.
There’s a lot that went wrong. Did anything go right? Seeing Hellboy wither into a skeleton was kinda cool. The Incan mummy talking through a gramophone was neat. It’s just a case of the bad outweighing the good.
Hellboy is captured. Victorian-era science. Zombies. Allusions to classic literature. God-serpents. Hit things with giant hand.
There’s a lot that went wrong. Did anything go right? Seeing Hellboy wither into a skeleton was kinda cool. The Incan mummy talking through a gramophone was neat. It’s just a case of the bad outweighing the good.