Mecha-Hellboy Meets Mega-Monsters This Fall In ‘Giant Robot Hellboy’
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
I like giant robots and I like Hellboy. So when I got an email that said…
“Mecha-Hellboy Meets Mega-Monsters”
I was all in. I mean I think comics set in the Hellboy universe have made me cry more than any other comic universe so far. I’m 90% sure it’s because I have unresolved childhood trauma and just wanted someone to talk to me the way Professor Broom talks to Hellboy when he’s being all fatherly and proud of him…. Also there has to be a Right Hand of Doom rocket Punch and some flaming horns on this giant thing right? Like… that has to happen!
The man, the myth, the legend, Mike Mignola and the wildly talented artist Duncan Fegredo have collaborated on some of the most iconic Hellboy Universe stories of all time, including Hellboy: Darkness Calls, Hellboy: The Wild Hunt (The sword from the lake panel is still one of my favorite panels in all of comics), and Hellboy: The Storm and The Fury.
Now the acclaimed duo, along with Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart and longtime Hellboy Universe letterer Clem Robins, are reuniting for a thrilling, three-part miniseries: Giant Robot Hellboy. Inspired by Mignola’s viral-hit pencil drawings from Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook, Giant Robot Hellboy features a Mecha-Hellboy and Mega-Monsters.
The first issue drops from Dark Horse Comics in October, just in time for Halloween, featuring a variant cover by Mignola and Stewart. Issue 2 will feature a variant cover by award-winning Shaolin Cowboy cartoonist Geof Darrow and Dave Stewart and issue 3 will feature a variant cover by Art Adams.
In this all-new series, Hellboy is kidnapped and hooked up to a massive mecha-Hellboy for a mission on a mysterious, faraway island, but the island might just put up a fight of its own.
Mike Mignola commented, “Giant Robot Hellboy is my very obvious nod to all those Japanese giant monster movies—which I actually have no particular love for. What I DO love is listening to Geof Darrow and Art Adams TALK about those movies—so really, I guess this series was inspired by those guys. I had the idea for this one a long time ago but figured it was too silly to actually do—then the pandemic came along and I started to do all those sketches I would post online. I had never given a serious thought to what a giant robot Hellboy would look like but I knocked out a few sketches and I liked them—and so the thing started to seem like something that could actually be done. But I knew I wasn’t the artist for it and I knew both Arthur and Geof were busy with other things, so the only other artist I thought of was Duncan. I had no idea how Duncan would respond. Too silly? I didn’t know, but I figured I’d pitch it to him and if he said no that would be an end to it. The rest is history.”
“Hellboy awakes to an out-of-body experience and simultaneously has to deal with the usual fallout from mad scientists doing their thing whilst learning to walk again,” said Fegredo. “Come to think of it, that pretty much describes my return to collaborating with Mike Mignola… if you enjoyed my previous forays into grand-scale storytelling, whoops, I did it again!”
The debut issue of Giant Robot Hellboy is on sale on October 25, 2023!
Until next time, check back here for updates because you know I will be covering this book!
