Mike Mignola's ongoing series Hellboy chronicles "the adventures of a six and a half foot tall paranormal investigator, who just happens to have cloven hooves, a tail, and a great big rocky fist," according to Comics Journal's Christopher Brayshaw. This big and bulky monster superhero "battles nasty Nazis, werewolves, fairies, and assorted Lovecraftian Things from Other Realms with the aid of a blazing .45 and a refreshingly dry sense of humor that renders him a fully-realized, complex character in a world full of refugees from pulp novels and late-night TV movies," Brayshaw further noted. Hitting the market in 1994, Hellboy has become something of a legend in the comic book world. "In a market swamped with carbon-copy superhero titles and pseudo-intellectual 'dark fantasy' ramblings," wrote Andy Diggle on the Ralf Hildebrandt comics site, "Hellboy stands out as a paragon of cool: offbeat storylines, flawless artwork, dark, sinister, thrilling and...