Haunted by deaths he s seen and ones he s caused, Abe returns to the place where he was shot, where his latest transformation began His path is blocked by strange priests, apocalyptic prophets, and one doomed soul after another, who all seem to think Abe is either the answer or the cause Collects Abe Sapien 12 14 and 16 17.

Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age he doesn t remember why and reading
Dracula at age 13 introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore from which he has never recovered.In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began wo Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age he doesn t remember why and reading
Dracula at age 13 introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore from which he has never recovered.In 1982, hoping to find a way to draw monsters for a living, he moved to New York City and began working for Marvel Comics, first as a very terrible inker and then as an artist on comics like
Rocket Raccoon,
Alpha Flight and
The Hulk By the late 80s he had begun to develop his signature style thin lines, clunky shapes and lots of black and moved onto higher profile commercial projects like
Cosmic Odyssey 1988 and
Gotham by Gaslight 1989 for DC Comics, and the not so commercial
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser 1990 for Marvel In 1992, he drew the comic book adaptation of the film
Bram Stoker s Dracula for Topps Comics.In 1993, Mike moved to Dark Horse comics and created
Hellboy, a half demon occult detective who may or may not be the Beast of the Apocalypse While the first story line
Seed of Destruction, 1994 was co written by John Byrne, Mike has continued writing the series himself There are, at this moment, 13
Hellboy graphic novel collections with on the way , several spin off titles
B.P.R.D.,
Lobster Johnson,
Abe Sapien and
Witchfinder , three anthologies of prose stories, several novels, two animated films and two live action films staring Ron Perlman
Hellboy has earned numerous comic industry awards and is published in a great many countries.Mike also created the award winning comic book
The Amazing Screw on Head and has co written two novels
Balti, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and
Joe Golem and the Drowning City with best selling author Christopher Golden.Mike worked very briefly with Francis Ford Coppola on his film
Bram Stoker s Dracula 1992 , was a production designer on the Disney film
Atlantis The Lost Empire 2001 and was visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on
Blade II 2002 ,
Hellboy 2004 and
Hellboy II The Golden Army 2008 He lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, a lot of books and a cat
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