Less than The Sum of Its Parts: Neil Marshall’s Hellboy is a bloody, joyless slog.

I’ve been a Hellboy fan for decades. From the beginning of his first miniseries, released in 1994, I knew I was reading something special. I had seen Mike Mignola’s art here and there in high profile comics projects from the Big Two—Some issues of X-Force, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Hellboy attracted me because it … Less than The Sum of Its Parts: Neil Marshall’s Hellboy is a bloody, joyless slog.