You’ve seen the drawing, and you may have the statue, but now you can get your hands on Giant Robot Hellboy in comic book form from Dark Horse Comics, Mike Mignola, and Duncan Fegredo Re!
The three-part mini-series kicks off in October as Hellboy is kidnapped and hooked up to a massive mecha-Hellboy for a mission on a faraway island.
In a press release, Mike Mignola commented, “Giant Robot Hellboy is my very obvious nod to all those Japanese giant monster movies—which I actually have no particular love for. What I DO love is listening to Geof Darrow and Art Adams TALK about those movies—so really, I guess this series was inspired by those guys. I had the idea for this one a long time ago but figured it was too silly to actually do—then the pandemic came along and I started to do all those sketches I would post online. I had never given a serious thought to what a giant robot Hellboy would look like but I knocked out a few sketches and I liked them—and so the thing started to seem like something that could actually be done. But I knew I wasn’t the artist for it and I knew both Arthur and Geof were busy with other things, so the only other artist I thought of was Duncan. I had no idea how Duncan would respond. Too silly? I didn’t know, but I figured I’d pitch it to him and if he said no that would be an end to it. The rest is history.”
Giant Robot Hellboy #1 arrives on October 25, 2023.
