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Posted by: spacemonkey at July 14, 2008, 3:45 pm

Topic: Hellboy II: The Golden Army Forum: JoBlo

Quote: Originally Posted by Shockwave I think my only gripe with the movie is how much they changed it from the comic. I was always a big fan of "if your going to adapt something then adapt IT." Still rocked, but Hellboy just had such imagination and craft put into it, i cant help but admire the movie more. He so needs to do a DR STRANGE movie. Now theres an idea! DelToro directing a Dr. Strange movie, it would suit him perfectly thats for sure. Anyhows, about Hellboy not being faithful to the comics. I dont agree so much with this comment so much Shockwave. The reason is because Mignolas early comics didnt really have a continuity to them. For the most part the Hellboy comics where always a bunch of short stories that always revolved around the supernatural. The Hellboy comics and graphic novels were never as sequential as say a Spider Man comic book. Hellboy and the BPRD were always there, but the real stars of the comics were the different supernatural myths that Mignola always brought to life in them. Werewolves, vampires, the baba yaga, elves, witches...whatever supernatural tale he chose to exploit in that story. There were a few core stories that dealt with Hellboys origins like for example "Seed of Destructionl" or "The Chained Coffin" but most of the time they were a bunch of short stories that appeard in Dark Horse Presents, sporadically. At least it was this way in the beginning, when Mignola was doing them. They might be more serialized now because of the popularity of the movie, but at the very beginning when Mignola was personally drawing and writing the tales, they were more like short stories that always revolved around some supernatural element, with Hellboy in them. The movie captured the look and feel of Hellboy to a T. For the most part, Guillermos movies feel like a tale Mignola might have cooked up in his comics. In fact, the first movie has many different moments stolen directly from Mignolas different stories. LIke that scene in which Hellboy wakes up a dead guy and carries him around so the dead guy will tell him which way he has to go. Or the very early scenes in which Hellboy gets sucked out through the portal and the military personell takes a picture with him. I say for the most part Guillermo captured the very essense of the comic book, the feel of the characters and the essence of their personalities. Origin wise he pretty much stuck to the comics as well, he didnt change much about the origin of Hellboy, though I must say, there is still a lot to be said about his origins. For those of you wanting to go deeper into Hellboys origins, check out The Chained Coffin and other stories.

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