Giant Robot Hellboy #3

Giant Robot Hellboy

by Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo (Artist), Dave Stewart (Colorist)

Giant Robot Hellboy goes rogue, leaving both the island and the laboratory in explosive chaos! Inspired by Mignola's viral-hit pencil drawings from Mike The Quarantine Sketchbook, Giant Robot Hellboy gets his own story in this 3-part miniseries from Mignola and longtime Hellboy artist Duncan Fegredo!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Supernatural

22 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 27, 2023

About the author

Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland. His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age (he doesn't remember why) and reading Dracula at age 13 introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore from which he has never recovered.

In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began working for Marvel Comics, first as a (very terrible) inker and then as an artist on comics like Rocket Raccoon, Alpha Flight and The Hulk. By the late 80s he had begun to develop his signature style (thin lines, clunky shapes and lots of black) and moved onto higher profile commercial projects like Cosmic Odyssey (1988) and Gotham by Gaslight (1989) for DC Comics, and the not-so-commercial Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (1990) for Marvel. In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film Bram Stoker's Dracula for Topps Comics.

In 1993, Mike moved to Dark Horse comics and created Hellboy, a half-demon occult detective who may or may not be the Beast of the Apocalypse. While the first story line (Seed of Destruction, 1994) was co-written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself. There are, at this moment, 13 Hellboy graphic novel collections (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien and Witchfinder), three anthologies of prose stories, several novels, two animated films and two live-action films staring Ron Perlman. Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries.

Mike also created the award-winning comic book The Amazing Screw-on Head and has co-written two novels (Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and Joe Golem and the Drowning City) with best-selling author Christopher Golden.

Mike worked (very briefly) with Francis Ford Coppola on his film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer on the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and was visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). He lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, a lot of books and a cat.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

and so the story short as it was ends - and with usual style there are more questions than answers - I guess the plan is to set this up for another storyline but in the mean time - Giant robots and monsters - yes the little boy is back again

The story itself can easily be slotted in to the larger narrative of Hellboy and using some well worn storyline tropes leaves little behind - or does it as there are other elements of the story I am just dying to learn more about - if nothing else the reason why they needed a Giant Robot Hellboy - I guess this calls for some more digging in to the later Hellboy stories

[Gabriel Benitez · Rating 4 out of 5]

HELLBOY, Robot Gigante es prácticamente una historia de Hellboy vs. La isla de los monstruos de Godzilla. Así que obviamente es una serie de tres números que los fans de ambos monstruos van a disfrutar, no solo porque la historia está llena de acción (la historia es de Mike Mignola) sino porque el arte de Duncan Fregredo emula bastante bien al del creador.
Hellboy es secuestrado para conectar su cerebro con el de un robot gigante (con forma de Hellboy, hasta eso) que ha sido enviado a una isla de África para realizar un trabajo: enfrentarse con una serie de criaturas gigantes que parecen resguardar algo. Jian, una chica enviada para supervisar la misión e infiltrarse en un bunker abandonado que se encuentra en el lugar pronto se dará cuenta que esa isla es más mortal de lo que parece, mientras que Hellboy, en su nuevo cuerpo mecánico, da una golpiza a pulpos, arañas, ciempiés, mantis religiosas y otra serie de criaturas monstruosas que se encuentran en la isla.
Si vale la pena.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pues... ha sido curioso que lo que surgió de uno de los tantos pin-ups de los Inktobers de Mignola haya dado pie a algo que se antoja como una nueva pieza clave para el Hellboyverso... Aunque en forma, sigue funcionando como una diversión dicharachera sin más (ahí ese trío de ingenieros que parecen estar viendo el capítulo de Mazinger Z más raruno de la historia). Es imposible no preveer todo lo que pueda dar de sí esa aparente revelación histórica ligada a Hellboy o la superespía Jian (que sobreentiendo que tendrá alguna relación con el Loto Carmesí). Desde luego ha sido genial reencontrarse con Duncan Fegredo ilustrado al grandullón rojo.

[uzhuj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title says it all, so robot hellboy fight giant kaiju. Which is kinda fun for a while. On the other storyline they are setting up a new sexy spylady character most likely for future adventures. That one I could have done without, not that is bad in any way, I would have just prefered to have a standalone story.

[chrstphre campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Monster Fight 1,2,3,4,5… Mysterious Ending ( ? )

That’s all there is to it, mysteries, monsters, robots, ghost ( ? ) grrrl, comeuppance, end or ( Not ) ( ? )
Broken up into 3 comix, each with a tiny snippet of an already very short story ( ( !!! ) ) ( ? )

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting more of Jian.
Oh well, a fun idea just ran out of gas.

[Elmari Kruger · Rating 5 out of 5]

The End for now?

Ghosts in the machine, radiation poisoning, telephone boxes, lets just add in all thing peculiar.

[Rorscharch71 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Art 5
Story 3

Tell me more about Jian…

[Абрахам Хосебр · Rating 5 out of 5]

Жилізний Геллбой, як архетип усіх героїв.
Три випуски арту Феґредо, який хочеться взяти в рамки і класичної лаконічної магії Міньйоли.

І як завжди - таємниця вкінці.

[Shawn Robare · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept is fun, but all this book does is raise weird questions and introduce new characters that aren’t explored. More of a 2.5

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This miniseries started off promising, but the second and third issues made the story confusing, convoluted, and baffling. I still love Hellboy, though.

[Misa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Of course there is a bomb!

[Rob Townsend · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read all 3 issues today but am counting it as one book, given that they'll all be collected in a trade paperback sooner than later. Lots of fun