This second collection of Hellboy stories does much to flesh out the character's background, although as with all the other collections, one gets the sense that there is a lot more to Hellboy's story than is being told here, or indeed at all. Still, the art is excellent and the pop culture/gothic/super hero fusion helps to fill the void for such things left in the wake of Sandman's conclusion.

Again Mignola's artwork shines in this volume. Although somehow the story seemed a bit "all over the place" to me. Maybe when I read the last volume it will all be pulled together more coherently.

- Peter K. ( )

Some good, old fashioned monster hunting. A death in New York leads to a vampire in Romania, the possible offspring of something a lot worse.

The team gets a new member when a homunculus is discovered, and finally, have to deal with that witchy-poo Baba Yaga and some other strangeness.
More top notch Hellboy goodness.

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