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A review by otherwyrld
B.P.R.D. Volume 3: Plague Of Frogs by Mike Mignola
3.0
Having complained about a lack of underlying plot in the first two books, I should be saying "this is more like it" but somehow this story swings too far in the wrong direction. There are a huge number of plotlines pulled in from all eras of the Hellboy story, dating right back to the first book and the story of frog creatures in a haunted house. I have read those books but it was a while ago so things were a little vague and having so many disparate plot elements being forced into one story left me a bit dizzy. Not only that, but we also have the quite frankly bizarre origin story of Abe Sapien on top of that. It's all a bit too much.
Basically, the plot - the B.P.R.D. are sent to investigate a shooting at one of their warehouses in Jersey, where they encounter the mutated frog creatures from an investigation with Hellboy 10 years ago. Investigation of the shooter leads them to a cult church in Michigan, where they are attacked by more frog creatures, zombies and a weird mushroom creature that has inhabited the body of the shooter. The cult is trying to bring about the return of the old gods, and by the end the frog creatures have escaped and are spreading out into the countryside where they will infect and recruit more creatures.
It is at this point that the story goes from utterly bizarre to WTF territory as Abe, on the point of death, has a hallucination as to his true origin. Is he really. I honestly don't know how I feel about this story line. Abe is one of the more interesting characters in this series, but this origin feels off in some ways.
It remains to be seen how this plot will be resolved, but I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt for the time being.
Basically, the plot - the B.P.R.D. are sent to investigate a shooting at one of their warehouses in Jersey, where they encounter the mutated frog creatures from an investigation with Hellboy 10 years ago. Investigation of the shooter leads them to a cult church in Michigan, where they are attacked by more frog creatures, zombies and a weird mushroom creature that has inhabited the body of the shooter. The cult is trying to bring about the return of the old gods, and by the end the frog creatures have escaped and are spreading out into the countryside where they will infect and recruit more creatures.
It is at this point that the story goes from utterly bizarre to WTF territory as Abe, on the point of death, has a hallucination as to his true origin. Is he really
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a flower taken from Atlantis that inhabited the body of a Victorian scientist that was dabbling in the occult, and was then sealed up when the rest of the group panicked?It remains to be seen how this plot will be resolved, but I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt for the time being.