Mike Mignola Returns to the Hellboy Franchise in Summer 2025

It's been years present since Hellboy creator Mike Mignola delivered the finale to that sprawling fearfulness universe, but it seems helium inactive can't rather permission Hellboy and the pack behind. Mignola is returning to the franchise this summertime for a caller standalone escapade called Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Professor Harvey is Gone.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Professor Harvey is Gone features the stunning, painterly artwork of Giuseppe Manunta (Artemis). Get a person look astatine Manunta's enactment by checking retired his screen creation below:

Art by Giuseppe Manunta. (Image Credit: Dark Horse)

Professor Harvey is Gone shouldn't beryllium wholly unfamilair to hardcore Hellboy completists. The comic is really adapted from a prose communicative written by Mignola's predominant collaborator Christopher Golden. At this point, adjacent Mignola is struggling to find caller layers to adhd to the Hellboy universe, but helium did spot a invaluable accidental to springiness ocular beingness to that story.

“I’m a large instrumentality of Giuseppe’s enactment truthful I was thrilled erstwhile helium told maine helium wanted to bash a Hellboy story—The lone occupation was that I had benignant of (finally) tally retired of Hellboy stories,” said Mignola successful a statement. ”My caput is truthful overmuch successful my caller Lands Unknown bid present that for a portion I was truly drafting a blank. Then I remembered a crippled I had fixed to Chris Golden a portion back. He wrote it up arsenic a Hellboy communicative for Weird Tales mag (The City successful the Sea—Weird Tales contented 367), but that was an unillustrated prose communicative and determination were (I thought) immoderate terrific visuals successful that communicative truthful I thought Giuseppe would beryllium a terrific creator to enactment those connected paper. So I reworked that archetypal communicative and thought and turned it implicit to Giuseppe to enactment his magic.”

Art by Mike Mignola. (Image Credit: Dark Horse)

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Professor Harvey is Gone volition beryllium released by Dark Horse connected August 27, 2025.

As Mignola alludes above, overmuch of his originative attraction these days is focused connected gathering retired a caller phantasy beingness called Lands Unknown. Mignola precocious published the graphic caller Bowling with Corpses, the archetypal introduction successful this beingness done Dark Horse and his Curious Objects imprint. It was 1 of IGN's astir anticipated caller comic books of 2025.

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