You can check out a six-page preview of Koshchei in Hell #1 below, hitting digital and physical shelves on Nov. It’s been a real pleasure getting to work with Mike in his Hell and having the opportunity to revisit places and characters he’s already drawn to create some new ones.” For the first time in nearly 30 years, there is now a definitive timeline of Mike Mignola s Hellboy comic book mythos. “Hell is set up to avoid all of that boring stuff. “Cars, office blocks etc.” Fortunately, Koshchei in Hell opens in.

“My dream projects are all about not drawing the real world,” Stenbeck says. As I recall, it really was just a matter of asking what would happen if THIS GUY went THERE and met this OTHER GUY - where would that lead? And it all ended up leading to some surprising places.” When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. At the same time I’d put Hell through a whole lot of changes and left some bits unresolved, things hanging - So basically I just had to mash these two things together and see where things would go. Mike Mignola has won numerous awards in the comics industry and beyond. There was no endpoint for his story that I needed to get to. “I’d done so much with Koshchei in Koshchei the Deathless that he could really do anything now, become anything. Returning to the character was “a real joy,” Mignola tells Polygon via email.

This is Mignola’s second Koshchei-centric series with Dark Horse Comics, after Koshchei the Deathless explored how a mortal warrior became the deathless slave of the Baba Yaga, with his soul hidden inside an egg that was hidden inside of a duck inside of a rabbit inside of a goat inside of a tree on an island past the edge of the world. With art from frequent collaborator Ben Stenbeck, Mignola returns to hell this month with Koshchei in Hell #1, continuing the story of one of his “favorite” characters in the mythos. Mike Mignola may have finished the story of Hellboy, but he’s not done with the big red guy’s world.

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