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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: 1952 by Mike Mignola

4.0

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We have long known that Hellboy’s adventures extended back for decades, and now begins the chronicle of those early days, before the BPRD became what we know it to be in the modern day, with Los Sherman, Abe Sapien and the others. This is a smaller agency, trying to find its footing, staffed mainly by ex-military for whom WWII is still a recent memory. Hellboy is kind of a kid in an adult’s body, and the result is a fun throwback to the kinds of adventures we saw in the first Hellboy volumes, before the entire Mignolaverse’s dire meta plot emerged. This is a really enjoyable read for Hellboy fans, as this is more about him than the BPRD.