Hellboy: Chained Coffin and Others v. 3 (Hellboy) (Hellboy (Dark Horse)) 
顧客評価: - Creatures of another world.
Mike Mignola s first two full-length graphic novels were basically two halves of one long story.
Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others is brilliant in a totally different way. This is a whole bunch of short stories that explore Hellboy s less prominent paranormal cases, as well as answering some questions left over from Mignola s longer stories. And we finally get some answers about where the demon-hero actually came from.
The first story involves Hellboy s attempts to get a baby back from the fairy folk -- and to do so, he has to get a dead body buried before daybreak. Problem is, none of the graveyards are willing to take him. Then he has to deal with a very unique fairy with very large iron shoes, the legendary Russian witch known as Baba Yaga, and Hellboy s Yuletide attempts to free a young girl from an underground monster.
Then Hellboy heads to the ruined church where he was found. While he sleeps, he dreams of a dying witch s plea to her children -- a priest and a nun -- to keep her save from my devil. But the devil that returns wants the witch s chained coffin -- and reveals something about Hellboy s own origins.
And when a priest friend of Hellboy s is brutally killed in a tiny Balkan village, he starts digging into the gruesome history of the mysterious Grenier family -- who were supposedly cursed to become wolves every seven years. Apparently one of the Greniers may still be alive -- and for whatever reason, he s gunning for Hellboy an his friend Kate.
Finally Mignola picks up a loose thread from a prior story -- after losing her fire powers to a strange homunculus, Liz Sherman is slowly dying. To save her, Hellboy sets out to find the homunculus, only to find that his crazed megalomaniac elder brother is planning to use Kate to bring a new, vast homuculus body to life...
Mike Mignola is awesome at full-length graphic novels, but his shorter works are even better -- these are lean, compact little action stories with nothing more or less than they need. And it s sort of nice to see Hellboy s more ordinary cases -- a changeling, a werewolf, and a few of the fairies.
Mignola s writing doesn t suffer from the shorter format, especially since he happily adapts some folktales to fit his world. There s wonderfully sick dialogue (I VE LOST MY ARRRRRRMMM! I m sorry. Really. But... do you really need it? I mean, you re already dead and we ve gotta go...) and some poignant moments (the fate of the fairy folk). Naturally, also plenty of bloody, horrific moments including a gruesome banquet and a chapel haunted by werewolves.
He also takes the chance to wrap up a couple of loose threads -- namely Baba Yaga and her nasty clash with Hellboy in a wrecked graveyard, and Hellboy s search for the homunculus that drained Liz s powers in Wake the Devil. One is a sequel and one is a flashback, but they show Mignola s attachment to his fictional world.
Hellboy is basically your average investigator in most of these stories -- he goes in, gets the job done and fixes things (occasionally being mistaken for Father Christmas). And Mignola gives us some glimpses into where the favorite son may have come from, and the reason why a priest and nun s ghosts were seen earlier in the series. It s pretty ghastly.
Graphic novelists don t usually fare as well in short works, but Hellboy, Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others is actually better than Mike Mignola s longer works. Definitely a must-read... just not after dark. - Hellboy is great.. This volume has plenty in it! It s a fair bit larger than the first two, and packed with fantastic short stories that had previously been unavailable for ages. The title story, The Chained Coffin gives a great look at more of Hellboys origins and.....daddy??!!. Plus there s the fan favourite The Corpse (nasty irish fairies) and Almost Colossus , which introduces Roger the homunculus before he joins the BPRD.
What I really love about this is how a lot of the stories are grounded in traditional folk and fairy tales from around the world, like the Russian witch Baba Yaga. There is something here most people will recognize. Plus its kinda nice to have a hero who s a bit of an anglophile! And to top it off there a neat art gallery section at the end! Marvelous! A great anthology for Hellboy fans! - Mostly superb. This is a collection of great Hellboy stories. Most of which are superb.
You can tell Mike does his homework for the stories to pick up many folk tales from around the world. He then sticks Hellboy in to the middle of them and this makes for such a great read. Several times in the book I got a big idiot grin on my face reading this stuff because of the lines that Hellboy comes out with and the things he says to the monsters he is battling with. Most of the stories are set like an investigation which sets the scene and the story, bringing in the elements of the mythos behind the tale. This invariably leads to a show down with the beasts behind the mythos where Hellboy does his stylish ass kicking thing.
One of the funny things about Hellboy is he is supposed to be this big hero and sports a great big gun but he is useless with it, never hits anything and ends up losing it more than shooting it! Lucky for him he has a big stone fist that packs a punch.
The only reason I didn t give this 5 stars is because I am not a fan of short stories as much as the bigger ones plus I felt that some of the stories could have been explored further but were reduced to what they are to fit in the comics they were written for. - Buy This Book. This is the third Hellboy Graphic Novel. The art by Mike Mignola is excellent. It is a collection of Hellboy stories. A blend of action, adventure, humour and gripping horror. Many tales are classic myths from celtic and eastern europe, and a passing nod to Frankenstein. It features the Origin of Roger the Homunculus, and explores hellboy s past. Hellboy takes on Baba Yaga and evil fairies. It contains the story of the Wolves of St August, an excellent tale later released as a graphic novel. The two issuse mini series Almost colossus, another excellent tale. All in all an excellent graphic novel.
- Nice stories.. I think Hellboy is lots of fun. Mike Mignola was already a well regarded artist before he turned his hand to writing as well for this series. His inexperience as a writer shows a bit in the long Hellboy stories, Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil. In the collected WTD he admits he had to re-plot the end of the book on the hoof when he found he had written himself into a corner.
This collection, which contains assorted one-shots, is more polished writing wise than the longer stories. There are some really nice touches here especially the sly folkloric learning which Mignola has picked up over the years, and it s nice to see someone approaching a supernaturally themed comic without the tiresome pretentiousness which characterises a lot of Hellblazer and Sandman stories. For all his demonic origin Hellboy is a very human character.
Another bonus in this collection is that each story is preceded by a little intro by Mignola himself saying how the idea came about which is a cool little bonus, it s always interesting to get a glimpse into the creative processes of people who are producing work you like.
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Hellboy: Chained Coffin and Others v. 3 (Hellboy) (Hellboy (Dark Horse)) (ID: 1593070918)
