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本作品の「Seed of Destruction」は、Mignola氏のキャラクターHellboyが初めて出てきます。人間の性格を持っている悪魔のHellboyはどこから来たなど、どうして地球にいるなどのことを学べますが、まだ答えられていない質問が残りますので次のHellboy漫画を読みたくなります。
Cavendish家の男達は約200年間北極地方に何かを探しに行っているのですが、一人も帰ってこないです。そして、Hellboyにとって父のような存在のBruttenholm博士は北極地方に行って、Cavendish家が探していたものをやっと見つけたようですが、何をアメリカに連れてきちゃったのでしょう。読者は、Hellboyが北極地方から来た恐れられるべきのものと戦っていることを見ながら、Hellboy以外の登場人物の不思議さを味わえます。何回も読みたい漫画です!
About the story: It's been over 35 years since Trevor Bruttenholm first found the creature that was later named "Hellboy", a big red creature over 7 feet high, strong as ten men, with a tail and an artificial stone arm. Nobody knows what he is or where he came from, including himself (a thing about which you get more and more hints as time goes by, not only in this particular volume). That was at the end of World War II on the scene of an occult experiment by a Nazi group trying to grab on to probably their last chances of enpowering the Reich. Now, the present, Trevor reaches out to Hellboy, who has since gone on to work for the "Bureau of Paranormal Investigation", because he desperately needs his aid. Weird extra-natural murders are taking place and it's up to Hellboy and his agency to find what kind of mystical powers are on a rampage and, even more important, who unleashed them.
What you have here is a title that especially people who like things like "X-Files" and "Planetary" will like a lot. It's about an agency that goes around the world to solve super-natural crimes and puzzles, but the members of the agency aren't that normal theirselves either. All this in a pretty gritty and dark atmosphere. It's very well-written, everything fits, and what also is really nice is that the creator (Mike Mignola) NEVER gave the story-writing or the art-job away in any of the following books. The creator sticks with his book and it really shows later on, when you see how things keep clicking and keep the same atmosphere. Must-buy for Planetary and X-Files fans and alike.
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