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I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

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Infinity Wars: Iron Hammer (2018) #1 (of 2)
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Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente
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Champions (2019-) #3
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente

Review- B.R.P.D: Vampire

B.P.R.D.: Vampire - Mike Mignola, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá

I got this as an ARC from Netgalley.

 

What do I say about this book?   What can I say?   That I can't tell you what I like the most, because it keeps changing?   The writing, the art - the penciling, the inking, the colors- are equally amazing.   

 

Full review under page break.

 

 

This story takes place in the past, when Hellboy is a child.   1948, to be specific, so four years after Professor Bruttenholm took Hellboy in.  

 

However, the story has very little to do with Bruttenholm, and even less to do with Hellboy.   When Bruttenholm is brought it, it's only to show the consequences of his actions, and how it now affects agent Simon Anders.   It's revealed that Anders has some vampires in him.   Their souls, their memories, whatever you want to call it.   (I haven't read the previous volumes, or not most of them, as I'm more a fan of Hellboy than the B.R.P.D.   But B.R.P.D plus vampires?  I needed to see this.)   

 

He also seems to have some of their strength, and so he's gotten angry, to the point where he's decided it's safer for him to be away from Bruttenholm and the others at the B.R.P.D.   Instead, he chooses to go after the vampires, all the vampires.   He and Bruttenholm narrow down where a vampire ceremony to Hecate - alluded to, shown here, and I suspect gone over in more detail in a previous volume - has taken place, and Anders goes there.   In the Czech Republic, he meets a woman who shows him around, and fills him in on more of the history of the Czech vampire lore. 

 

However, very little is as it seems.   The twists were not ones I was expecting, although  given that Mignola had a hand in this, I tend to tone down my expectations of what exactly will happen.   MIgnola is a master storyteller, so instead of trying to guess where he will take me, I simply trust him to lead me down an breathtaking, unexpected path.  I wasn't disappointed here. 

 

I also failed to look at who the illustrator was before I started reading this.   When I did go to double check, I expected it to be Mignola himself.   Imagine my surprise when I saw not the name Mike Mignola but Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon.  It looks a lot like Mignola's art.  Having seen their notes in the art gallery, I suspect that they were simply very true to his art style.    Regardless, they're amazing artists.   (I suspect they have their own style, and if this is any indication, an amazing one.   However, their homage to Mignola in this was incredible!)

 

Very, very highly recommended.