Product Description: Finally, the most bizarre Hellboy spinoff is collected in one volume, after four years out of print. Ren and Stimpy artist and Big Blown Baby creator Bill Wray joins with Mignola and a great lineup of humor cartoonists to reimagine a young, diaper-clad Hellboy and a host of other twisted childrens characters. Includes the outrageous Mignola-drawn tale Squid of Man and many others.
Hellboy Jr. ^ It's freaking hilarious! If you think MAD Magazine is funny you will love this book...
the stories done by Mike are some of his best!
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Horrible ^ This book is horrible, unfunny, and an insult to the rest of the Hellboy series.
Graphic SF Reader ^ Very funny parody tales of a young Hellboy. Various different styles and artists throughout. There are bits and pieces from Hellboy Junior getting a car to much more surreal and underground styled pieces, so perhaps something for everybody. More Hellboy, in general, is a very good thing.
Utterly Tasteless and Soul-Destoying Fun ^ These people who are putting this comic down as "filth" sound as though they are attracted to the original "Hellboy" series because of its religious connections and are shocked-- shocked!-- to see the underside of religious motifs portrayed here; Idi Amin and Hitler rotting in hell, perverse paradies of Harvey characters and a general sense that we're doomed to become excrement anyway, but it's a hell of a toboggan ride down. The artists are plumbing the same depths as the Underground Comix of the early '70s, (but with better design skills).
The nadir of the human mind needs to be explored, and I enjoyed wading through the detritus of our collective psyche for awhile. Sure I felt dirty afterward, but at least the tone is jovial, and not so heavy-handed as most popular forays into the Dark Side (Oprah, Geraldo) have become, all weighted down with moralistic tsk-tsking.
Think the first season of Ren & Stimpy. You have to be a little bit sophisticated to "get" it.
Great compilation of tasteless comics! ^ I think some of this stuff will appeal more to people who are into R. Crumb than Mike Mignola. It's hard to find stuff that's this sophomoric and filthy but drawn this well. I thought it was funny as crap, especially the Sparky Bear thing.
If you read Mad Magazine you'll recognize Bill Wray's style from the Monroe comics. Stephen DeStephano (The Venture Bros) draws the Harvey-styled Huge Retarded Duck and Wendy the Sickly Witch.Dave Cooper draws an amazing sequence where Hellboy Junior meets Idi Amin and halucinates from eating mushrooms. There's also a great Basil Wolverton tribute. Even Mike Mignola's contributions, which are drawn the same way as Hellboy Senior, are hilarious.
Anyway if you think both Mad Magazine and Tijuana Bibles are funny I think you'll like this. Great stuff.
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