Itty Bitty Hellboy

author: Art Baltazar

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.46

book published: 2014

rating: 4

read at: 2014/05/18

date added: 2014/05/18

shelves: children-s, graphic-novels

review:

'Itty Bitty Hellboy' is an odd thing. It's a graphic novel aimed at kids based on characters and situations that are definitely not aimed at kids, in my opinion. I love the Hellboy series, but the series and movies are quite dark.



The characters are all quite young. There are good guys and bad guys that are familiar to those who know the Hellboy universe. Abe, Liz, Lobster Johnson and, of course, Hellboy, are all here along with others. All the stories are a few pages long and the humor is squarely aimed at 8 or 9 year olds. There are ongoing gags, like Roger not being able to keep his underwear on. The kids all have forts made out of boxes. They end up in hell, then kind of heaven/purgatory.



The characters are introduced over the course of the book, so no larger knowledge of the Hellboy characters is needed, and they act like young kids would, so parents needn't worry about the darker Hellboy themes. It's part of a series of these by Art Baltazar and Franco. The characters are gosh darned cute and I thought it was pretty good.



I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this cute graphic novel.





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