“There is this nice quiet moment of Hellboy sitting under a tree, smoking a cigarette, and my brain just went, ‘That looks like the end of the series.’ As an artist, I was kind of going, ‘Yeah, I think I’ve done as good as I can with this thing. However, in interviews for this volume he describes the realisation he came to with issue eight (the third story in this collection) that after twenty years he had written his way to the conclusion of Hellboy and to continue it past that point would just be repeating himself: Mike Mignola’s decision to wrap up the series he began in 1994 came as a big surprise to his readership after his descriptions of Hellboy in Hell as the ultimate platform for ideas he had been working towards since the very beginning the perfect venue for him to do any kind of story that he wanted with no restrictions, and a book that he could work on forever. It’s also the grand finale to Hellboy’s adventures, which come to a very definitive end in this graphic novel. The Death Card is the second volume of Hellboy in Hell.
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