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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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.