Hellboy Library Edition, Volume 2: The Chained Coffin, The Right Hand of Doom, and Others Author: Visit Amazon's Mike Mignola Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1593079893 | Format: EPUB
Hellboy Library Edition, Volume 2: The Chained Coffin, The Right Hand of Doom, and Others Description
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The second oversize collection of Mignola’s infernal superhero consists entirely of the shorter stories that fill the gap in the unfolding big story started in the early Hellboys gathered in Hellboy, v.1 (2008) and resumed, a bit, in Strange Places (2006). It’s pure Mignola, written and drawn, and it verifies his and editor Scott Allie’s shared contention that horror is best suited to the short story, even when it is adulterated by Hellboy’s wisecracks and exclamations of minor frustration while pummeling and being pummeled by supersize supernatural monsters. Try “The Corpse” and “The Wolves of St. August” for starters, then devour the rest of these terribly tasty concoctions. --Ray Olson
- Hardcover: 278 pages
- Publisher: Dark Horse (October 21, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593079893
- ISBN-13: 978-1593079895
- Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
When Hellboy isn't saving the world from imminent destruction, he's doing a lot of little odd jobs across the world.
And by "odd jobs," I mean brief paranormal cases involving fairies, flying hunters, homunculi, "pamcakes" and disembodied heads. "Hellboy Volume 2: The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom" collects two volumes' worth of the demon anti-hero's assorted adventures, ranging from a fairy changeling to a devilish plot to conquer the world. All in a day's work.
Assorted short stories take Hellboy all over the world, and confronting many different problems -- a baby kidnapped by the faery folk, underground fiends, the malevolent witch Baba Yaga, a werewolf trapped by a centuries-old curse, the Saint Leonard worm (a dragon), a spectral huntsman followed by berserkers, a Japanese house full of bouncing heads, a seance gone horribly wrong, and the supervampire Varcolac.
And Hellboy heads to the ruined church where he was found -- only to dream of a dying witch, her holy children and a devil that sought the witch's "chained coffin." Turns out it has something to do with Hellboy's own origins. Not to mention an ancient, mysterious drawing provided by a priest of the "right hand of doom" -- which looks suspiciously like Hellboy's own hand.
And two bigger jobs loom over Hellboy -- after losing her fire powers to a strange homunculus, Liz Sherman is slowly dying. To save her, Hellboy sets out to find the homunculus, only to find that his crazed megalomaniac "elder brother" is planning to use Kate to bring a new, vast homuculus body to life.
And a demon (which looks suspiciously like a housefly) sealed into a box is stolen from a secret compartment, and is soon "serving" a human master.
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