I haven't read any in some time, are they any good still? I was thinking about getting the BPRD Hell on Earth books and the Hellboy and the BPRD books. I haven't read anything beyond BPRD Plague of the Frogs and Hellboy in Hell, so I wanted to verify if they were woke or not.
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Take one look at Mike Mignola’s twitter page and you’ll get your answer.
I looked and scrolled back like 2 months, and outside of the fact he is from LA, I didn't see anything liberal or even political. Am I missing something?
You didn’t see the picture of Hellboy wearing the Biden Harris shirt?
I wasn't on Twitter at that time, I only used it once Musk bought it.
Yeah, I will probably steer clear of really recent stuff.
Is BPRD OK up until it's conclusion in 2019 though?
I never finished BPRD and don't remember where I got up to, but I don't remember anything explicitly political. Could be misremembering, could be something that I didn't have context about, but the comics themselves seem to be alright.
But yeah, Mignola is a Cali fuckwit. Sad, but not unpredictable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I googled it, and I couldn't find anyone calling hellboy woke besides the image someone linked. I also looked up the comics on those free comics sites and skimmed them, and there was nothing really obvious at least.
I will probably go ahead and at least finish BPRD. It sucks about Mignola though. I don't know why these comics creator continue to divide an already increasingly small fanbase. No wonder American comics are on their last legs.
Honestly, while I vehemently disagree with Mignola politically, so long as his comics stay away from politics, especially since Hellboy and that universe has so little to do with politics, I can somewhat respect that.
Yes, the author themselves might be a little divisive, but if he's capable of separating his main art outside of a doodle or two (that holds zero actual bearing on the actual content), then I personally can let that slide. A major part of the culture war that's taking place in gaming and related is because people were getting fed up with shoehorned politics in (overwhelmingly nerd) media. If Mignola isn't doing that, I don't have as much of a problem. But maybe that's just me.
I agree. Most people in creative work have been left-leaning for decades, even before politics infected everything. The problem is how they have let it infect their work, to the point it compromises any sort of good story.
As long as his story is clear of it, I can separate the creator and the work enough to still find enjoyment in it.
https://twitter.com/artofmmignola/status/1307509897550991360
Nice to see Literature Devil in the replies at least.