Hellboy Winter Special 2016 #1

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(W) Mike Mignola & Various
(A) Michael Walsh & Various
(CA) Tim Sale

Best-selling novelist Chelsea Cain writes and Michael Avon Oeming draws the first of three snowbound stories. Then Tim Sale visits Mignola's prehistoric mythology, and in a lead-in to the upcoming issues of Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953, Hellboy explores a haunted mine in the barren wastes of Wyoming. Mike Mignola (W/Variant cover), Chris Roberson (W), Chelsea Cain (W), Scott Allie (W), Michael Walsh (A), Michael Avon Oeming (A), Tim Sale (A/Cover), and Dave Stewart (C)
Date Available: 01/27/2016

Reviews

There are four stories in the new Hellboy Winter Special. I'd say two are worth reading, and one of those is spectacular. That's a soft recommendation at best, but there it is.

Second best is 'Broken Vessels' by Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, and Tim Sale. It's a simple tale of two men meeting over a fire during winter, rife with the well researched mythological bent that Mignola is renowned for. The art by Sale is a very pleasant mix of traditional pencil/ink and painted work that is utilized to excellent effect to distinguish between times. The but, and there is a but, is that there's no Hellboy connection to the story. None. Zilch. It's just a great odd story that would fit better in a book of Greek myths being adapted. I guess its here because its Hellboy-ish.

The big winner is 'Mood Swings' by Chelsea Cain and Michael Avon Oeming which is the accounting of Liz Sherman going through puberty while fighting evil snowmen . Lord a mighty, its great! (But not enough to rave about the book.)