{"id":2110,"date":"2010-11-28T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:37:39","slug":"hellboy-masks-and-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2110","title":{"rendered":"Hellboy: Masks and Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/comics\/hellboy.php\">Hellboy<\/a>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jlRf4W\">Masks and Monsters<\/a><\/em> (2010) Mike Mignola, James Robinson, Scott Benefiel, Jasen Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jlRf4W\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hellboy-Masks-Monsters.jpg?resize=196%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8082\" \/><\/a>These are two tales outside of the Hellboy time line (ie this is not a sequel to <em>The Wild Hunt<\/em>) but are crossover with other characters including Batman and Starman. Batman doesn&#8217;t play a particularly large role (after all, he&#8217;s a busy super-hero) but Starman (which is apparently an inherited role) does. The Nazis are once again stirring up trouble, and want to wake up a monster to steal his power. (Silly Nazis).<\/p>\n<p>In the second story, Hellboy is searching for the vigilante Ghost, to attempt to recruit her into BPRD. Things don&#8217;t go as anyone expects. Well, I suppose nothing ever goes as expected for Hellboy.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was odd seeing Hellboy interact with Batman, I did enjoy the stories.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Dark Horse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellboy: Masks and Monsters (2010) Mike Mignola, James Robinson, Scott Benefiel, Jasen Rodriguez These are two tales outside of the Hellboy time line (ie this is not a sequel to The Wild Hunt) but are crossover with other characters including Batman and Starman. Batman doesn&#8217;t play a particularly large role (after all, he&#8217;s a busy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,291,16],"tags":[277,849],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","category-supernatural","tag-hellboy","tag-mike-mignola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-y2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":680,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/680","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":0},"title":"Hellboy Vol 5: Conqueror Worm","author":"Michelle","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellboy Vol 5: Conqueror Worm (2002) Mike Mignola I believe I've mentioned previously that I prefer Mike Mignola's shorter Hellboy stories than the longer stories. 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Hollow Earth & Other Stories takes place\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/BPRD-Hollow-Earth.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6066,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6066","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":2},"title":"Hellboy in Mexico","author":"Michelle","date":"September 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellboy in Mexico (2016) Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Mick Mahon, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba I generally like the Hellboy books that are collections of short stories, but for some reason I had a hard time getting into this collection. It had lots of the things I generally like about Hellboy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/anthology"},"img":{"alt_text":"hellboy-in-mexico","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hellboy-in-Mexico.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4695,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4695","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":3},"title":"Hellboy in Hell Volume 1: The Descent","author":"Michelle","date":"July 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellboy in Hell Volume 1: The Descent (2014) Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart My feelings about Hellboy? It's complicated. I tend to love the Hellboy collections that are more-or-less short story collections of his adventures. The stories about Hellboy's inheritance, I tend to enjoy much less, so... every other collection I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"hellboy-in-hell-vol1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hellboy-in-hell-vol1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4711,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4711","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":4},"title":"Hellboy: The Midnight Circus","author":"Michelle","date":"July 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellboy: The Midnight Circus (2013) Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart Couple things about this: 1) It came out as hardback. 2) I purchased the kindle version, because it was cheaper than the hardback (and by now we should all know my feelings about hardback books). 3) This is more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"HellboyMidnightCircus","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HellboyMidnightCircus.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":789,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/789","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":5},"title":"Hellboy Vol 6: Strange Places","author":"Michelle","date":"November 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellboy Vol 6: Strange Places (2006) Mike Mignola Hellboy was gone for awhile--a couple years. Strange Places tells us where he was during that time. Nowhere good. 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