Book-A-Day #68 (9/23): Hellboy, Volume 7: Strange Places by Mike Mignola

More comics, and yet another late book in a long-running series. As I said before, this is not the place to start.

But Mignola is doing great horror-fantasy comics, mixing Lovecraftiness and folklore almost equally, and I don't think the prose fantasy world notices very often. We should, though: this is really good stuff, and, in this book, something important happens to Hellboy (which happens rarely enough in a late volume of a prose series, goodness knows), that shows that Mignola is really going somewhere -- this isn't just a bunch of stories about a weird character, it's something more coherent and unified than that. What, exactly, the story will end up being is still to be seen, but I'm glad I'm reading it.