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I have the best friend in the world. Trinity got me all decked out with the newest version of MT and then she whipped up this kick ass Hellboy theme...I helped by finding the Hellboy font on dafont.com.
I've only just started entering the vast ocean of comics, but I've really become enamored of Hellboy. It started when I watched the movie and I was hooked when I saw the artwork of the comics in the special features section. I really enjoy, what to me, is simplistic art, but with bold lines and strong contrasts...Mignola seems to be able to get as much across with his sparse detail and many other artists do with the exact opposite. And there's the ever present Hellboy with his bright red vissage, throwing everything out of whack in a very subdued, dark and drab world.
Hellboy himself is a wonderful character concept, from how he files down his horns to "fit in" to the fact that he could bring about the end of the world, but doesn't because he's a good guy. For me he brings a lot of male machoism and swagger, but tempered by humility and good will. Someone who has seen what the extent of his power could be, but doesn't accept it and doesn't want to think about it, and continues to kick bad guy ass. I love contradiction and Hellboy is full of it.
My favorite moment, so far, is in what I mistakenly thought was the first trade volume. A very young Hellboy is fed pancakes and the demons of hell mourn, "He has eaten the pancake, he is lost to us forever."