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Aw Crap, HELLBOY's Fighting Luchadores Again
Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death will involve, of all things, a Mexican wrestling match. Written by Mignola and Chris Roberson and illustrated by Mike Norton, Paul Grist, Dave Stewart, and Bill Crabtree, the comic is set during Hellboy’s 1956 Mexico escapades. Fans might know that Hellboy spent the summer of 1956 having drunken adventures in Mexico; some of those stories are collected in the recent Hellboy Short Story Omnibus volumes. This story, however, comes at it from a slightly different angle.
“As longtime readers might remember, in the summer of 1956 Hellboy went through a rough patch, a months-long drunken lost weekend’ in Mexico that he later claimed to remember very little about, during which he fought Aztec mummies, palled around with Mexican luchador wrestlers, and even spent some time in the ring himself," Roberson tells EW. “And it’s also been established that in Hellboy’s world there was a long-running series of low-budget Mexican horror films featuring Lobster Johnson,’ a masked luchador hero inspired by the Depression-era hero the Lobster’ who Hellboy had idolized as a kid."
Fucking dope.
Thursday February 21, 2019