Hellboy: Odd Jobs by multiple authors including Michael Golden and Poppie Z. Brite – I wish that these stories held the magic and fascination of Mike Mignola’s comics or of Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Instead, you get some pretty rote stories with not much humor, action or horror.
As in nearly every compilation there are a few exceptions. In this book that exception is Stephen Bissette’s Jigsaw. It captures Hellboy’s personality perfectly and draws the reader into an eerie story with its tentacles slithering around the painful topic of addiction. Very good and highly recommended for those that like their Hellboy stories intense and disturbing.
Currently reading: E=mc2 by David Bodanis
Who would have thought that a lowbrow mathematical Neanderthal like myself would find reading about mathematics, physics and theory so interesting.
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