I've heard this is like the Berserk of Yea Forums. What am I in for?
Hellboy
Ian Young
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Gabriel Powell
It is nothing at all like Berserk. Whoever told you that is an idiot.
Henry Harris
Bald manchild goes on crazy wacky but also depressing adventures. I can't spoil so I dunno what else to tell you.
Tyler Collins
You've heard it wrong, only people who consumed 5 comics in their whole life would think Berserk and Hellboy are alike. Just because the protagonist is kinda depressed and has wacky friends? Honestly, I've seen more people argue this before but no one ever elaborates, what are the fucking similarities?
Lucas Murphy
>what are the fucking similarities?
They're in your post user. Yeah you're right on the money when you said the only people who think the two are alike probably don't read many comics. I'd argue the people who say the two are alike never even read berserk.
Kevin Evans
Hellboy was at its worst when it attempted continuity; it always felt forced and reverse-engineered.
Berserk was the opposite: the best was the ultimately unrealized background narrative (which granted was also reverse-engineered), and episodic standalone stuff got in the way of that .
Jack Howard
Similarities:
>dark fantasy
>tough character with demonic nature, and fights against this nature to keep it at bay
>experienced in dealing with the supernatural
>loses an eye
That's really it, I think.
This. Hellboy is great with the episodic stuff, and at its best once Mignola gets going in volume 3 or so, The Chained Coffin.
Christopher Thompson
Hellboy/BPRD is Pulp Cthulhu and Delta Green style comic.
Tyler Moore
fun paranormal short stories.
Camden Hernandez
listen to Satan, OP.
Kevin Gray
wew lad
Ethan Rivera
Hellboy isn't bald. Unless you're referring to OP...
Lincoln Jackson
Both lose loved ones in their journey
Liam Harris
A decent ending, after a long, long journey with a mostly stable level of quality.
Kevin Edwards
Good book?
Josiah Wilson
Hellboy is an urban fantasy series that draws heavily from pulp fiction, fairytales, mythology, gothic horror, and the works of H.P. Lovecraft to create a setting that feels familiar, yet wholly unique.
With that being said, aside from a few surface level traits, I really don't think that you can call Hellboy "the Berserk of Yea Forums." If anything, Hellboy is Yea Forums's Dorohedoro.
>what are the fucking similarities?
If I had to guess?
>One-eyed, untraditional protagonists with oversized weapons and dark backstories.
>Major antagonists are either demons or demon-adjacent.
>Themes explore the concept of determinism versus fatalism.
>Hellboy was at its worst when it attempted continuity; it always felt forced and reverse-engineered.
Honestly, I have to disagree. Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm, and The Fury aren't only four of the most continuity-heavy Hellboy stories, but some of the best. The only Hellboy comic I'd put above them is The Crooked Man.
Also, the Hellboy Universe's lore is dope as shit.
Logan Stewart
Just bought the omnibus and already loving it.
Chase Perez
The appeal of Hellboy is that you have the Beast of the Apocalypse working as a paranormal investigator and the relatively mundane ways he handles things. You could have a Nazi zombie possessed by the ghost of an ancient Mesopotamian sorcerer who is performing a blood sacrifice to summon Cthulhu, and Hellboy deals with it in a way similar to that of a cop one month from retirement would deal with a hobo in a Walmart parking-lot.
Caleb Nguyen
>Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm, and The Fury
I fell asleep to these. I don't like that Mignola thinks he's a writer and shirks on drawing duties.
>Hellboy Universe's lore is dope as shit
It has a lot of interesting elements but they don't gel well together.
Carson Lewis
Hellboy is one of the comfiest reads there is after Bone and maybe Jack Knight Starman. Just don't get bogged down with all the extra curricular BPRD runs. Some of that is alright, but alot of it is garbage.
Connor Harris
DREADFUL APPARITION, BEGONE!
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SOLOMON
IYOUEL
IYOSENAI
Andrew Hernandez
>I've heard this is like the Berserk of Yea Forums
No. It is good.
Easton Murphy
Yea, pretty cool.
Aaron Stewart
MLM
Daniel Thompson
So its just good but not Berserk good?
William Hughes
>Beserk is the comic of manga
Ian Bailey
>I've heard this is like the Berserk of Yea Forums
Nah, it's complete and the creator is alive
Hunter Jackson
>>Themes explore the concept of determinism versus fatalism.
My man, fatalism is a form of determinism, specially as presented in Hellboy, less so in Berserk.
Also fucking Moby Dick the same as Berserk based on your description so thanks Melville.
Christian Scott
Wait, Hellboy actually ended?
Charles Hughes
I haven't read that far, but people say the ending sucks
Gabriel Jones
I don't know about "sucks", but it was pretty much a bad ending in terms of the fate of the world.
Austin Ramirez
The Mignolaverse has a definite ending (and it sucks), but the main Hellboy comic has a definitive "and the odd adventures continue" type ending.
Isaiah Sanchez
>I haven't read that far, but people say the ending sucks
Hellboy in Hell had a great ending. BPRD had a good (albeit not perfect) ending too, but it went over a lot of people's heads.
Daniel King
HALIBUT!
Jackson Smith
NTA but I feel like most of the lore hangs together okay.
Ryan Butler
I agree with you on HIH and also on BPRD. My man. Thought it was fitting that it all sort of ended on a weird, melancholy, note.
Baazaku is my favorite manga and Hellboy is my favorite comic but I'm not sure how similar they are beyond surface details and really general themes. I think Guts is trying to forge his path and accomplish his goals/destiny while Hellboy is trying to run from his own inevitable future. Guts' malaise and setbacks feel awful for this reason, but when Hellboy is waylaid drunk in a ghost mansion or on an island far away from civilization, it becomes more of a reprieve from the inevitable.
Also, Alice a cute
Jayden Fisher
Hellboy in hell should have been the end.
Parker Scott
Top 3 favorite Hellboy stories and favorite enemy that he had to fight.
Go.
Ryder Sullivan
In no particular order:
The Troll Witch
The Bog Roosh
The Corpse
Overall favorite enemy probably the Koschei fight w/ Baba Yaga
Isaac Cox
Hell on earth ending felt like they just went through a checklist if all the hanging plot threads and unceremoniously tied them together
Liam Collins
Are you me? My choices are almost exactly the same, except that I'd switch The Bog Roosh with The Island.
Hudson Butler
Island is my 4th favorite. Crazy coincidence lol
Guess you can't go wrong with any of the Strange Places one shots
Anthony Carter
I love how wacky Hellboy gets and yet it always makes sense. And based trips.
Joshua Howard
i need a chart of comic books to recommend to normals and retards who read manga.
Ayden Jackson
Sandman Watchmen Bone Court of Owls
A few of my friends who read japcrap really liked Bacchus and the Frank comics but idk if that's normie enough
Gavin Hughes
My three favorite Hellboy stories are, in no particular order: The Crooked Man, The Wolves of Saint August, and Buster Oakley Gets His Wish.
The Crooked Man is also the best villain in the Hellboy Universe, in my opinion. He wasn't just creepy, but a great foil to Big Red.
Julian Morris
In the Chapel of Moloch is the best Hellboy one-shot, hands down.
Austin Bailey
Agree completely. Plus Corben's art really drove up the Crooked Man's creepyness to 20. Plus, growing up in more of a country area, I could see running into him in the woods, it kinda got to me. The Corpse was always my fav until this came around.
Dominic Parker
>Plus, growing up in more of a country area, I could see running into him in the woods, it kinda got to me.
Yeah, I grew up in the Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia, so I can relate. Aside from the obviously fictious demonic creatures and witches, Mignola and Corben really nailed the eerie feel of the Appalachian wilderness.
Angel Howard
My favorite is still The Corpse.
I also liked The Wolves of Saint August.
Makoma and The Crooked Man are probably in my top 5.
Isaac Lopez
Salt. Western artsyle by japanese artist. It's basically Coming of age romance with a hint of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft. Pretty fucking cool
Justin Bell
>Don't mess with me, ive been drinking with skeletons!
Funnily enough that contrast is pretty much the same reason Aqua Teen Hunger Force is popular, a group of assholes reacting to weird pulp sci-fi shit around them with a poor, low society mundaniety.
Bentley Parker
It's completely different to berserk. This is like those "Dark Souls of X" descriptions
Jaxson Sullivan
Henry Jackson
>The Mignolaverse has a definite ending (and it sucks)
Really? Which issue is it? I finished Hellboy in Hell, but after that I'm kinda confused about the reading order.
Aaron Turner
>Conqueror Worm
>The Island
>Dr. Carp's Experiment
Conqueror Worm is my favourite.
Landon Morgan
>Alice
What the rotten HELL were they thinking??
Gavin White
It's ok but not nearly as good as Berserk
Grayson Fisher
It falls flat at the end just like Attack on Titan
Caleb Jenkins
I usually don't care about race swaps that much, but this one was retarded given the fact that there was an actual in-universe reason for her to be a redhead.
Carson Parker
any recommended reading list for hellboy till his ending?
Owen Clark
Just read the two Hellboy Short Story Collections, and then the four Hellboy omnibuses. It's a pretty easy series to follow, honestly.