I read issues 2 and 3 of The Long Death today. About six months ago, I came back to BPRD after a bit of a dry spell. I'm not caught up on it yet, but I have a question regarding Long Death: What did Daimio do that was so bad?
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I must admit that I couldn't remember the details. Wiki to the rescue! Apparently Daimio killed several BPRD agents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Daimio
Ah. That makes sense. You know, I never did like him as the leader anyway. It was kind of fun seeing him get his comeuppance at the end of the story.
I've bought the first three HC volumes of the Plague of Frogs storyline, plus the three existing trades of the Hell on Earth story thus far. I've also bought all of the individual issues since BPRD: HoE Russia. I'm loving this series so much right now.
Question: Does anyone know if Being Human will be included in the HC PoF volumes? I don't have that trade yet.
I suspect it's not. The large number of creators on in that TPB aren't mentioned on the cover of volume 4 (even as "and friends").
Math might tell us for sure. Volume 4 is 456 pages; Being Human is 152 pages. Is it possible to get to the end of the Frog War in 302 pages from the end of Volume 3?
Hmmm, not sure. I guess we'll find out soon, huh?
Rob Staeger said:
Well, a little further research tells me that Volume 4 won't contain either 1946 or 1947, which makes me wonder even more about Being Human. I may need to buy 1947 separately as well (I bought 1946 for 75% off at the DCBS store in Fort Wayne this summer). My next visit may be to buy up both Being Human and 1947. (As well as a couple of Abe Sapien volumes and a Lobster Johnson.)
How crazy is it that I'm actually more interested in reading BPRD than I am the rest of the Hellboy volumes I still haven't read?
I don't think it's crazy at all. I've been more involved in BPRD than Hellboy for years. I think Mignola was wise to spin it off so long ago. There's so much more room to move in BPRD: more characters, more interpersonal tension, and the ability to shift the character focus at will. With Hellboy you're pretty much stuck with the big red guy, cool as he is.
In some of the BPRD scenes set in the Colorado HQ, you can feel the florescent lighting of the break room. It's funny and interesting to me how they can shift from an office setting to the horrific and back again. This is a really good book.
Man, reading volume 3 of BPRD, I'm getting some seriously flawed views of some of the characters. Makes me see them more human than most comic book characters. This makes them a lot more sympathetic, somehow, in my opinion.
I think I might be going back to read volume 1 & 2 again before I read 3 & 4. In any case, I probably won't read volume 3 until 4 is in my hands... and definitely not until I finish A Dance With Dragons. One big honkin' book at at time!
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