We caught up with Mignola to talk about avoiding the reviews, the cameo from fan-favorite character Lobster Johnson, and his desire to get back to drawing comics. But that’s hardly Mignola’s fault, and his Hellboy comics will surely remain classics in the canon of sequential art. Alas and alack, critics have not been kind to the film so far - as of this writing, it’s rocking a 12 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. This time around, The Descent director Neil Marshall is at the helm, a shockingly jacked David Harbour ( Stranger Things) is in the title role, and the story is adapted from “The Wild Hunt,” a Hellboy comic that Mignola and artist Duncan Fegredo put together a decade ago. Hellboy, a character created for comic books by writer and artist Mike Mignola in the early 1990s, was the lead in two Guillermo del Toro–directed film adaptations during the aughts, but his latest cinematic effort is a total reboot. He appears in a series of short stories rooted in folklore, pulp magazines, vintage adventures, Lovecraftian horror, and horror fiction.It’s been a rough 24 hours for everyone’s favorite crimson-toned paranormal investigator. He works for the B.P.R.D., an international non-governmental agency, and fights against dark forces, including Nazis and witches. Hellboy is a fictional superhero who first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 in August 1993. It's a subtle, dark, little folk horror story.”
Everybody actually agreed from the very beginning, 'Yes, we want to do that one.' Budget-wise, it's good because it's a lower budget kind of a story.
It's beautifully illustrated by Richard Corben, and it's a solid story that doesn't involve a million different characters.
And the perfect story to do that with is my personal favorite, 'The Crooked Man.' I think it's one of the best things I've ever written. “For years, we've been saying, if you're going to make a Hellboy movie, make it small. In that same interview, Mignola also spoke about how he thinks anything related to Hellboy should be done and why The Crooked Man is an excellent story to adapt:
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