A really fun book. The only problem is the length of some of the stories. 8/10

This book represents everything cheap and stupid about the comic book industry. Every artist in the company draws a few pages of a popular character, so now they get to say they've drawn Hellboy on their resumes, the publisher gets a book to sell without having to commit any real talent and the unfortunate reader is left with a dozen half baked stories that end with insulting little punch lines every three or four pages. This would be bad enough, but it's all made so much worse by the overall to...

Not so enjoyable collection of supershorts.

Mike Mignola and editor Scott Allie decide to let some other amazing artists and writers take on Hellboy, Mignola's magnificent creation, in a series inspired by (and using the name of) the old Weird Tales magazine.Some really interesting character pieces here, especially the Liz Sherman story involving the anniversary of her parents' death and the demon Pazuzu (note the same figure from The Exorcist). This is primarily an art book, giving artists who wouldn't normally have a chance to draw Hell...

Get a bunch of cartoonists to adapt Hellboy in weird zany ways? Heck yeah. The Goon guy makes a funny/goon-y comic. Andi Watson (traditionally a romance comic artist?) makes a surprisingly insightful comic. Others range from Looney Toons to very straightforward. Certainly an interesting range of stories, all in great art styling.

This is the first Hellboy book to disappoint me. It contains several short Hellboy stories, but not by Mike Mignola, rather by various other writers/artists. The only one that really felt worth reading was "The Dread Within," a story about one of Liz Sherman's investigations. Other than that, the stories here are disposable.

Very nice collection of Hellboy stories. Its always interesting to see how other writers and artists envision someone else's creation. Overall good stories and art. Recommended

This review is for both volumes of Weird Tales. I did read them on the same day, and my thoughts for both are essentially the same.I get why there are so many people eager to work on something, anything related to Hellboy. Hellboy's world is a great creation. So that's what we have here, a bunch of people trying their hand at Hellboy stories. The result is pretty much what you'd expect: a mixed bag of mostly mediocre stories, with a few especially dull ones and a few really good ones. Worth read...

The introduction to this compilation of short stories says that it's an artists' book, and it certainly is. For most of the stories, the art stands out but the stories are nonsensical (and not in a good "weird tales" way - more like I can't quite make out what's being communicated). But the art is good, don't let my 2 stars take away from that. It just didn't have a whole-package feel.The strongest story in the book is the one featuring Liz Sherman on the anniversary of her parents' death. The p...

This collection features a lot of different art styles and a lot of different tones between all of the writers. Everyone is using the characters of Hellboy, but to tell their own short tales, some humorous, some gothic. It is a mixed bag. I did recognize some familiar names such as Eric Powell of The Goon, Volume 1: Nothin' but Misery fame. So, perhaps the best part of this was that it reminded me to keep reading The Goon.

It's a collection of stories by different authors and artists/inkers. Some stories were great, others were not so good so the consistency of the quality of the narration, art or stories is not good.

This book is a bunch of short stories related to Hellboy and his partners at the BPRD, made by several authors. Being told that, I liked some of the more than the rest. My top five are "Caliente" by Randy Stradley and Seung Kim, "Vuelo de riesgo" by Joe Casey and Steve Parkhouse, "Abe Sapien: estrella de la AIDP" by John Arcudi and Roger Langridge, "La maldición del tapete" by Mark Ricketts and Eric Wight, and "El miedo interior" by Jason Pearson.Esta obra es una colección de historias cortas re...

I don't know why so many people disliked this book. I found it very funny. Yes, it's not Mignola working on Hellboy, but it was what it was mean to be, other artists taking on HB. Perhaps, I did not recommend this book as a first read of Hellboy, but, if you are into the world of the Red Beast, go get it, it's funny and interesting to see how other artists interpret HB.The book is a collection of short stories, some of them better than others, but, everyone of them enjoyable. The stories go from...

I picked this up at my local used book store (Title Wave). As always the comics I grab from there tend to be fairly random and not something really on my to read list. I AM currently reading through the Hellboy books (although I'm only on volume 3 or 4), but this isn't really part of the series proper.What is, is a collection of short story type comics, all featuring hellboy, all by different writers and artists. This is the second short story type comic collection I've read recently and just li...

This is mostly a showcase for the different artists. Each story lasts only around 6-10 pages, and while some are better than others they all seem like an afterthought. Only recommended for those interested in looking at a whole bunch of Hellboys.

It's fun to see other peoples' takes on Hellboy and the rest of the characters, but the stories are kinda uneven, and I just missed Mignola's artwork.

My lowest-rated Hellboy title so far. It's a fun idea - having all sorts of artists adapt Hellboy and Co in all sorts of ways, with funny stories and creepy stories and so on. A nice variety for fans (because that's really who this is for, the already-established fans of HB). At least, in theory. The result is just too inconsistent. Some of the art styles were very good - either suitably Mignola-esque or stand-alone good in their own ways - but other styles were completely not my taste. For exam...

So, give a character to some other writers and artists and see what they do...Some of these are bust a gut funny. Those are my favourite. And little Hellboy is just the cutest. As I have a slightly rebellious teenager, I am wanting to read some stories of Hellboy at a slightly older age but enjoy what I have read in this volume. There is a disturbing one about Hellboy attending a birth that makes me feel conflicted. I like the idea of the story but I'm just not sure.

Some gems in there, but man did I have to do some digging to find them!So, this is a collection of non-canon stories from different writers and artists as Mignola was in Prague working on the HB movie, hmmmm. So, are they good? World: The world is pretty much what Mignola left it in 2004, as all the tales are non-canon there is world building here, but inconsequential and only serves the story. The art in this collection is all over the place, and mostly of the "I don't care for it" and "yuck" k...

Hard to rate this, as it was really scattershot in terms of quality. Some of it was great, some was real bad.