Amazing art, cool mythology and further Mignola world building genius!The second arc of the Hellboy tale is an interesting one, not only does it build upon the world that the first arc but it also keeps expanding the world wider and wider, full of weird and wonderful creatures:World: Awesome, if you liked Seed of Destruction you will not be disappointed here. Building on the mythology that was established in that book we get a further glimpse of the world and the characters moving around in it.

Mignola takes all the great things from volume 1 and expands upon it. We delve more into our weird mad scientist Nazis and Rasputin. Vampires, Hecate, Baba Yaga, and homunculus are all introduced. Even Witchfinder Edward Grey gets a reference. Mignola is the master at taking all of these disparate myths and lore and mixing them together into a brand new tasty broth which I can't get enough of. The scripting and characterization is already better now that John Byrne has been kicked to the curb. H...

Everything in this book should be something I adore instantly. Mythological creatures, links to the past, super cool moments, great visuals, colouring top-notch and yet... I am still like - Oh cool. I like it. Please give me more. It may be heresy, but... Mike Mignola does not know how to write characters.I feel like in the first two books I have the most knowledge of Rasputin and various nazis characters. I like Hellboy because he is cool. I like Abe because he is cool. But what about the other...

Re-read 7/30/15: See below, plus I'd forgotten how important Baba Yaga is to this series even from the beginning. I love the complexity of her character and how her being the villain of the piece is challenged by seeing her from Rasputin's perspective; she's evil, but that's not all she is. I also find it interesting how blood magic ends up being a part of the story in two directions, both Giurescu's vampirism and Rasputin's demand of Ilsa that she die in order to power something greater. Extrem...

I got confused. They were talking about stuff from book 3 and this is suppose to be book 2? Other than that it was ok. Damn those nazi's! Won't leave Hellboy alone.

Wake the Devil is a pretty enjoyable comic book with great artwork by Mike Mignola, but the writing can feel overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time.

Goes without saying that I love the artwork and the great use of black. Again, a number of panels could be framed.The evil guys' expectations around Hellboy are hinted at in this volume, and it's nice to see more members of the wider B.P.R.D. team. I liked how many different myths and legends are woven in to the Hellboy stories, and how there are so many different types of evil guys, and how a larger story surrounding Hellboy's responsibilities and actions on earth are slowly being revealed.

A lot goes on between the lines in these comics, giving us a history largely unseen and mostly just implied.Fortunately, it also relies on so many occult sources and mysteries and legends and mythologies and old gods that it's pretty cool just to sit back and see where Hecate or the Sumerian head honcho An or where Rasputin takes us. Murder mysteries aside, of course, it's great to see the bird women and the dead rise and getting to see a whole damn castle blow up. It's fun for all the kiddies!B...

I enjoyed the second volume of Hellboy more than the first. This volume relies a little less on Lovecraftian themes, and it has a stronger connection to the myths and folklore of Europe, which gives this a more grounded feel. Vampires, Hecate, and Baba Yaga make appearances. The art is amazing, as is to be expected from Mignola.

Again, a much better impression on a second read. This volume is still a bit rough, but at least John Byrne's clunky writing style is gone, and Mignola's doing a much better job writing and drawing his own story. And he will get much better in the later volumes, obviously. And again, there are a lot of super-important story elements in this second book that I totally missed or forgot on my first read. Also, I have to say, Dark Horse is putting a lot of incredibly interesting extra stuff in these...

There sure is a lot of falling through floors in this series.You bet your biscuits Id be a little more careful in where I step than the peeps in these comics...

You know what is really great? A tulip of beautiful, rich imperial stout. You know what is even better? Having a second one right after the first, equally beautiful and equally rich.Well, it’s the same with “Hellboy”. What you’ll find here is a hidden lair of surviving Nazis, operation Ragna Rok, but also operation Vampir Sturm, and a pissed-off Hellboy who’s against going after a thin case with too much conspiracy theory crap. But there is also a Nazi mistress (also known as the “no-good, crazy...

A hell better than the first volume! Creative Team:Creator, Writer & Illustrator: Mike MignolaColors: James SinclairLetttering: Pat Brosseau SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Think. Why burn down the world when we can be its masters? That dialogue is a great teaching to all those stories where the bad guys are planning to destroy the world......where are you gonna live after that, morons?!!!Conquer the world, I can understand that (it doesn’t mean that I sympathize with the concept) but destroy it?

I enjoyed this, the dark art, the atmosphere, the setting, and Hellboy's personality is a lot better than it was in Seed of Destruction (Vol. 1). More sense of humour: Reanimated corpse coming at him, calling him a beast, and his reply? "Big talk for a guy with no pants." for some reason I found that particularly amusing. Liz and Abe show up here, though in much smaller supporting roles, and a couple other BPRD team members, some not so lucky as others. There's a lot of familiar baddies returnin...

Re-read for staff book club. - I owe them an apology. I forgot just how dense this one was with exposition compared to later installments. I love it, but booooy howdy is it dense.

The B.P.R.D. are sent for another case.During the mission, Hellboy starts to learn more and more about the purpose of his existence...I dare to say that I liked this a tad more than the previous one.It's interesting how this book blends a lot of old folklore tales and urban mythology and makes it part of its universe. Very imaginative.It's all accompanied by great writing/art from Mr. Mignola.In short, strong continuation, I want to see where it goes next!4.5

Love the art! Love the story! If you don't like traditional capes and cowls comics, give this a try.

Wow!! The the first volume in the Hellboy series, Seed Of Destruction sets up the main characters, mood and mythology with a slow burning pace. Wake The Devil explodes along, providing depth to the volumes villains while Hellboy is thrown from action set piece to action set piece. The artwork is beautiful and unique in comics. Fans of Lovecraft and Dracula will greatly enjoy this. The artists produces simple elegant panels while translating complex emotion and themes. A reader just stops to admi...

Hellboy Volume 2:Wake the Devil is one hell of a great story. This is the best, of my admittedly limited experience, of the Hellboy books I've come across. It had a little bit of everything- Nazis, Rasputin, Hecate and Vampires. A motley combination, I shall admit, but like Chop Suey it works well together.The tale starts with a wealthy businessman named Roderick Zinco. Zinco funds a project to look into an abandoned World War 2 base in the frozen arctic portion of Norway. Once Zinco lands and b...

This second volume in the Hellboy series is menacing and intensely creepy. People familiar with the first film by Guillermo Del Toro about Hellboy will recognize some elements of the story, but a good bit of the story was also adapted to the animated film "Blood and Iron." I think that as dark as both film adaptations are, the source material is moreso.Hellboy managed to overcome his origins through sheer force of his self-determined will in Volume 1, Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction. He is