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Hellboy: Lost Army (Hellboy (Pocket Star Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Christopher Golden (Author), Mike Mignola (Illustrator)
2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (1 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743462823
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743462822
  • Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 10.9 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,128,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ottakar's Outland Magazine Issue 31, Autumn 2004 : "Rather like an X'-File' investigating the 'X-files', the lantern chinned, wisecracking Hellboy is one of the most endearing heroes to have emerged in comics for a long time, coming across as fresh, inventive, and, above all, highly entertaining." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The hero: forty years after being rescued from Axis powers at the end of World War II, he's a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown, then beats it into submission. And he's a blood-red, cloven-hoofed demon with a tail and a stone right hand. The mystery: Around 525 BC, a Persian army fifty thousand strong vanished from the face of the earth while crossing the Egyptian desert. Two millennia later, amid mounting hostilities between Libya and joint allied forces, a group of British archeologists has met the same fate, disappearing without trace along the edge of the Great Sand Sea. From the legendary oasis of Ammon, the dead warn Hellboy and his companions: leave now or die. Digging deeper beneath the sands of the Sahara, the paranormal investigation team find a danger far greater than they bargained for. In the immortal sorceror Hazred, has Hellboy found a foe beyond even his supernatural powers?
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1.0 out of 5 stars A sad disappointment, 18 Jun 2003
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This review is from: Hellboy: The Lost Army (Paperback)
Hellboy is a great comic character, and if you've not read the graphic novels, go and do it now!

This is the first of the Hellboy novellas I read, and it really could have been so much more. An excellent central character, rich source material, a dynamic narrative tradition, all excellent raw materials for the writer of fiction to get to grips with, but sadly the opportunity has been squandered here. If I were Mignola, I'd be very cross with this effort.

My reservations about the Hellboy love-tryst aside, I think much more could have been done with Lost Army. Hellboy himself seems much more ineffectual than he does in the comics. We spend a lot of time with the eminently more vulnerable human associates of Big Red, but none of them really stand out as particularly loveable.

But oh, the errors are there aplenty! What are MI5 doing in the middle of the Sahara when their remit is purely UK domestic counter-intelligence? Why does a member of the Church of England cross himself? And why, if Reagan is mentioned several times as being the White House incumbent in 1986 (the book's setting), is the British prime minister referred to as 'he'?

It all goes towards undermining the overall impact of the book. I really wanted to like this one, I really did. If you're a Hellboy afficionado, and need more details on the HB universe, then get it for the sake of completeness (and the bonus Mignola illustrations).

If you're looking for a good read, go get Mignola's Seeds of Destruction instead.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent new Hellboy adventure, 8 July 1997
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This review is from: Hellboy: Lost Army (Paperback)
Until now, Hellboy has been a visual experience. Mike Mignola's artwork has been, and still is, 90% of what defines Hellboy. Understandably then, I was sceptical of the written Hellboy. Luckily, my scepticism was unwarrented. This is a fine book. The characterzation is right on the mark, the supporting cast is great, and the locale and mythology are intriguing. And Mignola's occasional illustrations are just enough to remind us that Hellboy will always be a graphic character. I could've done without the water serpent and the giant spiders, but regradless, bring on more of the same!
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