Well, don't forget the comics jump around insanely in time -- there's stories set more or less in the present day, and others with a younger (but still adult) Hellboy running about in the late 1950s/early 60s. The world-weariness is a little stronger in the stuff with a closer to present-day setting where he's seen a lot more weird shit and had more friends die, including his adoptive father Prof. Bruttenholm.
Del Toro deviates from the fine details of the setting and character backstories, and plotlines, in numerous major and minor ways, but it doesn't bother me here because he doesn't really seem to have lost sight of the big picture; the grand pulpy feel of wisecracking weirdness with quite a bit of heart under the clobbering is intact.
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Date: 2008-07-21 02:40 am (UTC)Del Toro deviates from the fine details of the setting and character backstories, and plotlines, in numerous major and minor ways, but it doesn't bother me here because he doesn't really seem to have lost sight of the big picture; the grand pulpy feel of wisecracking weirdness with quite a bit of heart under the clobbering is intact.