Hellboy

On sale now from Dark Horse is Hellboy in Hell #1, a comic that marks not just a new creative achievement in the already superlative oeuvre of cartoonist Mike Mignola and a return to drawing the main Hellboy story after several years away, but also the beginning of a new and carefully considered phase of his professional career...

Pulling apart a good comic is like trying to figure out the secret ingredients in a great dish. You have to go on taste and feel alone. The dish's sharp bite could be basil or pepper, and the juicy taste could be thanks to primo meat or a long-term brine...

Gaming: It looks like Scribblenauts Unlimited may be the next great source of in-game superhero fan art. Lists: Tom Spurgeon responds to Bleeding Cool Magazine's list of the "100 most powerful people in comics" with a tongue-in-cheek list of 10 least powerful people...

Video: Fox's Animation Domination takes a School House Rock-inspired look at... a very special and NSFW version... of participating in democracy in America this election. Gaming: The Marvel Heroes MMO imagines Deadpool's would-have-been Halloween costume...

With an expansive line that includes Mike Mignola's supernatural epic Hellboy, Eric Powell's zombie-slugging The Goon, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Steve Niles' occult investigating Criminal Macabre, the new Eerie, the archives of Creepy, and new series like Tim Seeley's Ex Sanguine, Guillermo del Toro's The Strain, Lance Henriksen & Tom Mandrake's To Hell You Ride, and Paul Tobin

Creators: Grant Morrison is on his way to knighthood after Queen Elizabeth II honored him as a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to film, literature, comics and plays. Movies: The Wolverine is officially a sequel, rather than a prequel, to the other X-Men films...

The upcoming year is going to be big for B.P.R.D. Dark Horse recently announced their renumbering initiative for the popular Hellboy spinoff, and longtime Hellboy and B.P.R.D. editor and newly anointed Dark Horse editor-in-chief Scott Allie has said that recent events in the series are leading toward what he simply but ominously described as "The End...

I'm a big fan of Vasilis Lolos, the artist whose most recent work you can check out in Dark Horse's Conan the Barbarian. Like the Brand New Nostalgia artists we spotlighted earlier this week, I think Lolos' images express a very youthful, high-contrast style that's extremely striking, but his comic book storytelling demonstrates a care and sophistication that I think might have more in common with

Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi and drawn by Guy Davis, Tyler Crook and a number of similarly excellent artists, B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth follows the adventures of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, a variously freakish team of supernatural investigators on a mission to protect the world from infernal forces of every kind...

While the publisher's San Diego Comic-Con programming was focused on its various franchises like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Horse Presents, Star Wars and Bioware, Dark Horse made a number of new and returning horror comics series announcements throughout the SDCC weekend...