Customer Reviews
Strange Places for Hellboy...and the reader - By: Sam Russell, 23 Aug 2008 
Mignola is clearly more confident & able to bring Hellboy to places that he himself wants to bring this marvellous character. Strange Places follows Hellboy on a journey of finding himself & who he wants to be & though it doesn't actually end with Hellboy achieving this, it nevertheless tells us tales of woe that the character happed uponin his journies. The wonderful thing about the world of Hellboy is the array of characters & folklore that Mignola draws upon, & here within the pages of Strange Places is no exception. Hellboy is part of world that the reader knows little of, & through the eyes of Mignola & Hellboy, the reader becomes all the more aware of what both Mignola wants us to see & what Hellboy must endure being Anung Un Rama
Fills a gap... - By: grr, 24 Apr 2008 
Mike Mignola's latest Hellboy effort picks up with what happened after Hellboy left the B.P.R.D & his journey to Africa. Features plenty of Lovecraftian underwater monstrosities & some stroppy fairy types!
Certainly not the bestin the Hellboy series but a welcome return for my favourite red guy. Plus it reveals a few more secrets about his origins & purposein the "Third Wish." It also contains "the island" & some previously unpublished sketches & artwork. A must for Hellboy fans & collectors.
Simply the best - By: M. Lawrence, 25 Nov 2006 Mike Mignola is quite simply the best comic book artist out there. When you sit there & marvel at the sheer simplicity of his illustrations you can truly appreciate what a master of the craft he is. After all the key to comic book art is to be able to convey what is happening at a glance, this allows each cell to seemlessley flow into the next. But when you do start to muse over each picture you notice just how clever his style is. The simple rule is that what'sin shadow is black & what isn'tin shadow isn't black!
As for this book it is yet another sneeky peek into Hellboy's mysterious origins & even more interestingly the origins of the Ogdru Jahad. But of course like all of the other books Mignola manages to ask more questions than he answers! But hey isn't that why we love Hellboy!
