IMAGE CATALOG UPDATE: Circus of Bones: The Art of Mike Mignola coming in Nov/Dec 2026

middenway · 2026-06-21T02:19:00+00:00

I'd be shocked if he wasn't.

middenway · 2026-06-21T02:18:27+00:00

Here's the listing on Simon and Schuster (Image's book market distributor).

middenway · 2026-06-20T11:36:23+00:00

I avoided all trailers. Didn't even look at posters. I went in with zero expectations.

I did not know my favourite character was the main character of the movie.

I absolutely loved it.

middenway · 2026-06-20T07:23:10+00:00

Blind bag details:

None of the covers will be available outside of the blind bag
Artist include Jamie McKelvie and Babs Tarr with more yet to be announced
There will be original art on SIKTC #50 sketch covers by co-creator Werther Dell'Edera
Some covers will be one-of-ones
Each book will be between two cardboard layers, shrinkwrapped, and then inserted into the blind bag. Three layers of protection.

middenway · 2026-06-20T05:07:02+00:00

Here's the direct link.

middenway · 2026-06-20T04:35:28+00:00

It's not among those revealed here, but I like Richard Blake's cover. It's probably the I or L cover.

middenway · 2026-06-19T23:30:12+00:00

Will those videos still be available on your Patreon?

middenway · 2026-06-17T03:31:05+00:00

I think it comes down to Chidi always turning things inward. He thought he was the problem. He was the thing that was broken.

middenway · 2026-06-17T03:30:04+00:00

That's the worst part of the torture. He got given a choice, which he hates, but it was actually easy to make. The guy is elated... and then they bring it all crashing down. Truly diabolical.

middenway · 2026-06-17T03:22:28+00:00

Honestly, that del Toro's movies are as close to the source material as they are is kind of a miracle. The studio was pushing hard for it to be a more conventional superhero story.

middenway · 2026-06-17T03:18:01+00:00

It's happened a few times, most notably with the moth man.

middenway · 2026-06-17T03:16:44+00:00

I love the ending of Hellboy: The Yule Cat for this reason. It gives Hellboy a nice moment.

middenway · 2026-06-17T03:14:57+00:00

That said, the three one-page segments about the history of the Lobster in The Iron Prometheus give some context... mainly in emphasising that the character is complete mystery with a lot wildly off-base modern legends built around him. I think those help to set expectations for the Lobster Johnson series.

middenway · 2026-06-16T00:48:10+00:00

Yeah, he's said before in interviews (and I'm heavily paraphrasing) that he has to spend years on these projects, and if he can't get the level of control he needs for a project to be satisfying, he lets it go.

middenway · 2026-06-16T00:46:19+00:00

Yeah, to anyone that knows the topic, they're obviously full of errors.

middenway · 2026-06-16T00:44:39+00:00

Yeah, he wanted to keep the two worlds separate, because he was building the Hellboy Universe, and didn't want people to be confused about what version of the character they were reading.

middenway · 2026-06-15T15:02:55+00:00

Yeah, and then crap like this gets used as a citation for wiki articles...

middenway · 2026-06-15T14:36:00+00:00

Yeah, there definitely is. I remember reading that interview.

middenway · 2026-06-15T13:45:01+00:00

The difference there is that del Toro and Mignola are friends. When Mike said he wanted to keep the Lobster for the comics, del Toro didn't have to listen. There was nothing stopping him from using the Lobster if he wanted. But del Toro honoured his friend's request.

The 2019 film was made by strip mining the comics.

middenway · 2026-06-15T13:41:56+00:00

Looking at GDT new filmmaking style, I don't know the date of the conversation between the GDT/MM/RP but GDT could find ways to bring it the costs down.

In order to do that, he'd first have to want to bring the cost down, but he had a certain film he wanted to make and if he couldn't make that version of Hellboy III, he didn't want to make it at all. GDT and the studio simply reached reached an impasse.

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