It's one panel, but taken with the location panel of the cottage, the pair begins pulling us into the tale. And the dialogue balloon right on top saying "Awful Things". The way the baby is rendered, there's some cuteness, but the expression on the face - something's not right. And trouble is exactly what happened as the woman who is living in this cottage is complaining that her baby is no longer the child she gave birth to, something else has replaced it, something that reveals itself only when she is alone with her child. No neighbors, no immediate help during times of trouble. I know it's in Ireland but it's also in the middle of nowhere. But the thing that gets me is the remote location of the cottage. Now that our mind has been set, let's move on.
Anyway, back to the quote: Amazing isn't it? It puts us in the proper mood - a neat balance of fear and fascination. You can't be reading something called "The Corpse" and have "Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory" come to mind for heaven's sake). He's best known for the diary he kept (yup) but this quote has been much used in popular media (I won't name names because the titles of some of the movies and stories that have used the quote will threaten to take us out of the proper "somberly fascinated" mood we should have while reading Hellboy. William Allingham was a 19th century Irish poet and writer. The story called "The Corpse" begins with a tantalizing quote: Mignola used a lot of ancient Scandinavian Fairy Tales in these stories and what happens when you use such ingredients? What happened is the old allure of stories handed down for generations is mixed with the novel concepts surrounding the B.P.R.D - and the Hellboy tales are the richer for it. Go with me and we'll visit them all and further steep ourselves in the primeval magic that is Hellboy.ĭid I say 'primeval' magic? I meant fairy magic. I am impressed by the attention to detail and resultant depth of a lot of the individual panels in Chained Coffin. These stories were originally published as parts of anthologies and other releases mainly from Dark Horse - some stories have been released in lengths as little as two pages. The years when Mignola first conceived of Hellboy. These collected tales come from the very earliest days of Hellboy. The Chained Coffin and the book that follows it The Right Hand of Doom are a collection of a lot of small tales rather than book-length story arcs like Seed of Destruction and Wake The Devil. Previous: Hellboy Wake The Devil Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others
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