Reviewed by celinenyx on
Summary: During the Second World War a Nazi project involves some kind of dark magic. At the same time of the ritual, Hellboy is summoned. Now, years later, Hellboy helps a bureau of paranormal investigators.
What I liked:
- The art is beautiful in Seed of Destruction. It feels as if the artist draws in surfaces, instead of lines (if that makes any sense). The drawings are clean and shadow-heavy, and seem so modern to me even though this graphic novel celebrates its 20th anniversary this year
- Mignola uses a lot of interesting angles and techniques that made reading such a pleasure
- Hellboy looks adorably awesome
- Seed of Destruction is a good combination of a self-contained mystery and the start of an over-arching plot
- I can't wait to learn more about Hellboy's origins, and what will happen to him in the next few books.
- Mignola deserves a cookie for at least trying to introduce some useful females, even though he doesn't accomplish it very well
- The use of Nazi symbols was very clever, and the threatening air gripped me
What I didn't like
- The main monsters Hellboy fights are frog-like or have long green tentacles. I found that kind of dull
- Hellboy tends to go into long inner monologues while fighting which slows the action down
- I feel kind of conflicted about the use of Nazi's in the story. Somehow that's a bit iffy for me
Verdict: Good start of a series, dives right into it instead of only setting up the overarching story. Beautiful shadowy art, can't wait to read the next one.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 20 February, 2014: Finished reading
- 20 February, 2014: Reviewed