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B.P.R.D., Vol. 9: 1946 (2008)

by Mike Mignola(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1595821910 (ISBN13: 9781595821911)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dark Horse Books

series

B.P.R.D.

review 1: As the title suggest, the story is set in the early days of the B.P.R.D. and features Trevor Bruttenholm (pronounced Broom)as the main protagonist. In this story he travels to post-war Berlin to try and seek any information about his young ward Hellboy. He finds himself stymied at all turns by a similar Soviet paranormal group let by the mysterious child/demon Varvara.The two groups come together to uncover the horrific story of Operation Vampir Sturm, Hitler's attempt to create a vampire army that he would use to unleash on the world in the event of the fall of the Third Reich. Along the way you get cyborg gorillas, a head in a jar, an old vampire that can turn into an owl, and an experimental rocket designed to send the newly born vampires to America. It's all very weird... more and dark, but in the end I felt that it just tried too hard to throw as many ideas into the mix and see what stuck. The mystery of who Varvara is could have been spun out a little bit more as well, but as it is she is a truly creepy creation. Whilst this story is listed as volume 9, it and its two sequels (1947 and 1948) are self-contained and could be read at any point. Neither does it require any prior knowledge of either Hellboy or the B.P.R.D. so it could be used as a stepping on point for new readers, though some people may be put off by the storyline.
review 2: One of the best collections in the series, partly because while it benefits from reading earlier stories, it stands more or less alone. It's (surprise!) 1946 and Professor Bruttenholm is desperately searching Nazi occult archives for information on his new charge Hellboy. This brings him into contact with a leftover Nazi experiment in vampirism, a Nazi cyborg scientist and Varvara, a Russian demon who looks like Shirley Temple (not as funny as it sounds, she's creepy as hell). Very good. less

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