Four stars, despite the bulk of the collection being taken up by a dreadfully slow and disjointed Scott Allie story. Scott Allie's writing is the worst thing that ever happened to Hellboy. Even worse than dying and going to Hell.

Ranking stories:1. KrampusnachtBeautiful art, great twist ending. The art really is unreal, it's so good.(The only one worth reading here)2. Return of the Lambton WormFun short tale, but forgettable, like the Professor intended.3. The Beast of VarguWhat even happened here? But always glad to see Duncan Fegredo.4. Saturn ReturnsOverlong and just plain boring. I was never invested in this and constant cutting between the two stories helped neither. The Liz part was just unnecessary and useless. Th...

Rating: 3 stars - I liked itThis is a collection of six Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. stories: "Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu," "Hellboy: Krampusnacht," "Hellboy: The Return of the Lambton Worm," and "Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Saturn Returns" #1-#3.This was an enjoyable collection of missions that Hellboy goes on for the B.P.R.D.. I enjoyed that some of the stories featured Liz as a young teenager struggling to cope with her abilities. Of the stories in this collection I found the Beas...

The Beast of Vargu and Others offers some quality Hellboy tales, though it's a real random mix. The Beast of Vargu is short and sweet, as are the Krampus and Worm tales. Krampus is an easy favorite for its dark, seasonal tidings and superb artwork. Most of the collection's space is allotted to Saturn Returns, in which Hellboy tracks down a mystery killer in the northern wilds. The side characters here are annoying and too present, basically resulting in Hellboy getting second billing. The Liz si...

Some more solid Hellboy tales set in the 60's and 70's. My favorite was the Krampus tale illustrated by Adam Hughes. It was nice to see Duncan Fegredo to return for The Beast of Vargu as well.Received a review copy from Dark Horse and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.

I did receive my monthly collection of comics and it has been some months since I received some titles dus to the Covid-19 outbreak. Hellboys 4 stories in this paperback all have some sense of melancholy involved on the side of the "baddie", ally or Hellboy. They are all quality tales that makes you enjoy the story of Hellboy even is he a Demon in his own right.On another note I have seen the new movie and it is actually quite a decent reboot of the character, my wife got a kick seeing an Easten...

This was a nice collection of Hellboy tales, with some nice artwork. Some of it's even written by Mike Mignola himself (it would've been nice if he could have drawn those issues himself, too, but fat chance of that happening these days).I've had this one sitting on my 'currently-reading' shelf since February (it's October as I write this), thanks to the shipping cancellations due to the pandemic, so it's nice to finally get my paws on the last couple of issues and clear it down.

Hellboy, as a series, has two strengths, and I'm increasingly more delighted by the one-offs than the arcs, which is rare. I love Hellboy's moral wrestling and his all-time battle against his supposed innate nature and the long-standing enemies as well as his most notable pals, but the series feels at its most adventurous when it's just Hellboy roaming the world on lone missions throughout the mid-late 20th century. You don't have to recall anything save for who Hellboy is and what he's about. H...

Return of the Lambton Worm - 4* - Had a lot of difficulty finding a copy of this to read as the Library does not have this particular TPB. Eventually found an online version on the "Playboy" website, as the story was actually a comic exclusively released to Playboy for the magazine’s May/June 2018 issue. The story is short, sweet, entertaining and easily ties in with later Hellboy stories. Kudos for them managing to get all this done in a short format.Beast of Vargu - 3* - pretty interesting tal...

Very much second-tier Hellboy stories. Saturn Returns had a weird, fragmented style to it that seemed like there was a panel missing every here and there. The Beast of Vargu wasn't bad. Krampusnacht was little for than a vignette. And The Return of the Lambton Worm was even less than that. Rounded out with a bunch of pages of sketches of work in progress, cover variants, etc.

An impressive collection of stories.Having never read these stories makes this book a genuine find. Don't ask me to pick a favorite, cause they each are jewels. This is the kind of book you give to show others how different Hellboy stories can be.

Some more adventures from Hellboy's past...The Beast of Vargu--Hellboy goes to Romania and encounters the titular beast at Vargu Castle. A local gypsy woman also tells him his own adventure via a puppet show which is bizarrely tied to the defeat of the beast. The tale is weird but not particularly satisfying. The art by Duncan Fegredo is great and makes up for other failings.Saturn Returns--In 1974, a remote New England woodland grove is home to dozens of corpses. People had been vanishing or "l...

Some fun stories. But as usual Scott Allie has to ruin things with the terrible Saturn Returns story. His dialogue is always very hard to follow, sometimes confusing me enough to check if I'm not missing pages. I suspect some text has been misplaced or left out. Glad he finally got kicked out.

I liked all these stories EXCEPT Saturn Returns which is of course co-written by creep Scott Allie which explains the crappy dialogue. I really dislike Christopher Mittens art, maybe he’s just not suited to Hellboy. I find he draws people with an angled head and raised-eyed knowing expression a lot, to the point where it’s quite boring, or one person standing behind someone’s shoulders. After a while, your brain picks up on the reused positions and it gets boring to read.

both "Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu" and "Helboy: Krampusnacht" are very strong. unfortunately the 3-issues long "Saturn Returns" was pretty terrible (also... fuck Scott Allie... he's a terrible person)

In what was, for me, an unusual turn, I had already read all of these stories elsewhere, but it's still nice to have them all in one place, and any story that pits Hellboy against the Lambton Worm - as drawn by Ben Stenbeck - is always gonna get at least four stars outta me.

Finally, a good book in the “Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.” series! Thank you Mignola, this is the Hellboy we all love to read. The last few entries were starting to get pretty bad; whereas this volume is pure gold – and that’s thanks to the fact that the author went back to the classic formula of monster-hunting, with no silly B.P.R.D. shenanigans to spoil the fun.Five stories were collected: "The Beast of Vargu", "The Secret God of the Roma", "Saturn Returns", "Krampusnacht" and "Return of the Lamb...

This B.P.R.D. installment was a cool collection of Hellboy shorts. I'm really glad I picked this up since it's the first time I got to experience the masterpiece that is Krampusnacht! The story really hits that sweet spot that only Mignola can reach with his eerie plot lines and the art was so gorgeous. I would linger on the same page for a bit just to take in the beauty, Adam Hughes really knows how to draw Hellboy!Return of the Lambton Worm was also a great shorter piece. The Beast of Vargu an...

Yet another marvelous collection of various short stories that chronicle the adventures of Hellboy and his colleagues at the B.P.R.D. These tales, all one-shots that mostly appear elsewhere in the Mignolaverse TPBs, come together very nicely here, with a bonus tale or two thrown in. What makes this volume such fun is that the stories range from the whimsical and weird to the dangerous but not apocalyptic. They all fill out the strange details of the world of Hellboy without tipping off what the

Hellboy takes a trip to Romania and puts an end to the Beast of Vargu. A ghoul in the New Hampshire woods finally gets caught and Liz comes back with Hellboy. Hellboy puts an end to a goat that thinks it's Krampus in Austria.