Hellboy

• Title: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 – Ghost Moon #1
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• Writers: Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson
• Artist: Brian Churilla

Set in August of 1953, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954–Ghost Moon #1 sends Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. to the Walled City of Hong Kong during the month of the Ghost Moon on the Chinese calendar when people believe the gates of Hell open allowing spirits to return. Called in by Trevor Bruttenholm who has already lost one agent to mysterious happenings in the city, Hellboy, Susan Xiang, and Archie Muraro arrive to investigate.

Hellboy and his team stumble across the same strange happenings including a pair of monstrous beasts desperately searching for something that has been stolen and the discovery that someone has taken an hunpig and is using the spirit jar for their own evil ends by drawing the life energy out of the locals for his own selfish ends.

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• Title: The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed #1 (of 5)
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• Writers: Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson
• Artist: Paul Grist

For the latest Hellboy storyline, creator Mike Mignola (along with the five-issue mini-series co-writer Chris Roberson) goes back to the beginning. Showing up just before Hellboy‘s arrival, an unnamed visitor was also on hand with explicit instructions to kill the beast prophesied to destroy the world should it appear.

Seeing a helpless infant with many possible futures, and not a monstrous beast determined to wipe out all life, the visitor chose to watch rather than act rashly and see what the creature might become. Taking place along Hellboy’s timeline but outside of it, the new five-issue series ponders an important idea about how far you would go to prevent someone from becoming a monster. Is Hellboy indeed destined to destroy? Or is his fate in his own hands?

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