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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - Hellboy Junior
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $5.99
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Manufacturer: Dark Horse
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781569719886
ISBN: 1569719888
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Date: 2004-02-11
Publisher: Dark Horse
Studio: Dark Horse
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Horrible
Comment: This book is horrible, unfunny, and an insult to the rest of the Hellboy series.
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Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: Very funny parody tales of a young Hellboy. Various different styles and artists throughout. There are bits and pieces from Hellboy Junior getting a car to much more surreal and underground styled pieces, so perhaps something for everybody. More Hellboy, in general, is a very good thing.
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Summary: Utterly Tasteless and Soul-Destoying Fun
Comment: These people who are putting this comic down as "filth" sound as though they are attracted to the original "Hellboy" series because of its religious connections and are shocked-- shocked!-- to see the underside of religious motifs portrayed here; Idi Amin and Hitler rotting in hell, perverse paradies of Harvey characters and a general sense that we're doomed to become excrement anyway, but it's a hell of a toboggan ride down. The artists are plumbing the same depths as the Underground Comix of the early '70s, (but with better design skills).
The nadir of the human mind needs to be explored, and I enjoyed wading through the detritus of our collective psyche for awhile. Sure I felt dirty afterward, but at least the tone is jovial, and not so heavy-handed as most popular forays into the Dark Side (Oprah, Geraldo) have become, all weighted down with moralistic tsk-tsking.
Think the first season of Ren & Stimpy. You have to be a little bit sophisticated to "get" it.
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Summary: Great compilation of tasteless comics!
Comment: I think some of this stuff will appeal more to people who are into R. Crumb than Mike Mignola. It's hard to find stuff that's this sophomoric and filthy but drawn this well. I thought it was funny as crap, especially the Sparky Bear thing.
If you read Mad Magazine you'll recognize Bill Wray's style from the Monroe comics. Stephen DeStephano (The Venture Bros) draws the Harvey-styled Huge Retarded Duck and Wendy the Sickly Witch.Dave Cooper draws an amazing sequence where Hellboy Junior meets Idi Amin and halucinates from eating mushrooms. There's also a great Basil Wolverton tribute. Even Mike Mignola's contributions, which are drawn the same way as Hellboy Senior, are hilarious.
Anyway if you think both Mad Magazine and Tijuana Bibles are funny I think you'll like this. Great stuff.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What is this?
Comment: I felt embarrassed reading this in public. The art is childish, the humor is forced and sophomoric and not funny. They should have read each other's stories before they went to press; most of them make the same joke of Hitler being tormented in hell. It got old real quick.
The book gets two stars for each of Mignola's contributions. As usual, everything he puts his hands to turns to gold. The artwork is charming, haunting, and with a few spare words, he gets real laughs. How does he make it seem so easy?
I don't regret buying this, since there are a couple of gems in it. The rest is surprisingly awful. It's the kind of material that makes some people turn up their noses at comics.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Bill Wray (Ren and Stimpy) combine their talents to bring us the outrageous adventures of Hellboy, Jr. and his little friends. This volume includes stories of Wheezy the Sick Little Witch, the Ginger Beef Boy, Somnambo the Sleeping Giant, The Wolvertons, Sparky Bear and Huge Retarded Duck, plus a brand new Hellboy, Jr. story not in the original series. Mignola and Wray are joined by the diverse talents of Dave Cooper (Futurama), Stephen DeStefano (Ren and Stimpy), Pat McEown (Grendel), Hilary Barta, Glenn Barr, and Kevin Nowlan.
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