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Hello, and welcome to First Issues Now, the weekly show
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posted daily ish about only the newest first issues released
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by insert common company. Here this week, I'll be looking
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at the comics release for the week of November twelfth,
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twenty twenty five. I honestly don't know if I'm gonna
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like this one. The last Hellboy book and their spin
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offs I've checked out have all been a bit of
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a mixed bag and even got people annoyed with me
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for not being all about it. But frankly, even at
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its worst, the Hellboy comics are still at the very
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least worth checking out if you like the concept and
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the big red machine. So let's check out this and
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rip the band aid off to see which side I'm
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gonna piss off today. This is hell Boy and the
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bpr D The ghost Ships of Labrador Number one. Story
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by Mike mcnola and Rob Williams. Art by Lawrence Campbell,
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colors by Lee Loughridge, with letters by Clem Robbins. A
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town overrun by ghost would be enough of a problem,
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but hell Boy has an even bigger problem on his
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hands when a fellow bpr D, the Agent, disappears among
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the paranormal chaos okay, so listid, I'll do the heavy
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lifting then jeez, so yes. Red Babe Labrador which is
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in Canada. For you guys who think that it's a
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weird story set upon a dog has been overrun with
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ghosts who are kind of just casually descending one day
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and they just stuck around, it actually is kind of
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weirdly unique. So agent and exorcist Agatha Blunt of the
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bpr D, with her trusty dog Elba, shows up to
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the town to see what's going on, but as she
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wheels herself into the mist, she and her dog vanished
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without a trace. That's where hell Boy and Abe Sapiens
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show up to figure things out some more. They have
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a shockingly casual conversation with a pair of ghost before
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Hellboy gets into a fight with the big, hulking captain
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of the ghosts. However, it's never over because when they
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do find Agatha after that, she has the truth of
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the matter. The ghosts didn't come to take over the town.
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They came because they were running away from something in
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the ocean, and then a giant fish swallows them up. Dun, dun, dun.
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This is another that's a perfect example of what I
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mean when I say I've never been a fan of
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two part Hellboy stories. This is a fantastic issue and
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it showcases why the Hellboy universe is a brilliant thing
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to read. It is fun, it is engaging. It is
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a universe that can have ghosts just show up and
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stare at a lamp, praising the majestic nature of it
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being an indefinite light source on a stick. Agatha is
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also really neat for the first few pages that we
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see her in, and even the sheriff, who has no
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idea what's going on, is a really fun read too.
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The art is spectacular, as it always is, and the
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writing is tight, fun and just worth looking at. It's
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also great, but the issue is that you can also
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see why Hellboy has always been a top seller when
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it comes to graphic novels and anthology bundle books rather
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than single issues. This is a great first half and
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even has a great cliffhanger where everyone, including some of
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the ghosts, are swallowed by a giant fish. It's great,
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but it also gives the feeling that there needs to
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be more. It's frontloaded with the characters, but when you
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split a book in half at the climax, it feels
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like there's no way to go up in the next issue.
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It's less a two part story and a story that
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has been split into two halves. Yes, that makes sense
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in my head. Regardless, my verdict for this book is,
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as it often is with Hellboy, read it. Read it
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means that you should absolutely read it for all the
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reasons that I've said in this it is definitely worth reading.
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Give it a digital buy so that you can read it,
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but when it comes to a physical buy, go for
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when these are bundled together so you can see both parts. However,
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I'd also say if you look at a couple of
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the variants, you may want a hard copy because those
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covers are nice. I know that really makes us feel
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like a wash ending hah yeh well, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Let me know what your thoughts of this issue are
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to continue doing these And while you're at it, check
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out the other podcast from carry On Productions, like Killing
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fifteen minutes, mithing fifteen minutes, and blanking fifteen minutes. They're
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all pretty sweet in their own way. More than anything, though,
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Staggled and Inklings