With Liz gone and their most powerful enemies banding together for a final, catastrophic attack, Abe, Kate, and Johann must determine the price of their souls as they decide where their loyalties lie—and whether the life of a friend is more valuable than the fate of the world. B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess collects the second arc of the Scorched Earth trilogy, pulling together threads from the beginning of the series, with a twist that will shake the worlds of B.P.R.D. agents and readers alike. • Collects B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess issues #1-#5. • From the pages of Hellboy!
With Liz gone and their most powerful enemies banding together for a final, catastrophic attack, Abe, Kate, and Johann must determine the price of their souls as they decide where their loyalties lie—and whether the life of a friend is more valuable than the fate of the world. B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess collects the second arc of the Scorched Earth trilogy, pulling together threads from the beginning of the series, with a twist that will shake the worlds of B.P.R.D. agents and readers alike. • Collects B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess issues #1-#5. • From the pages of Hellboy!
At the turn of the twentieth century, a British museum curator with a bent for the occult traveled east in search of power and immortality. He was never heard from again. In 1937, a masked crime fighter, the Lobster, faced a magic-wielding madman bent on fulfilling an apocalyptic prophecy. The plans were foiled, and the world saved, but the villain himself disappeared_ Seventy years later, B.P.R.D. agent Liz Sherman began to experience visions of a mysterious gentleman who warned of coming catastrophes. When the Bureau tracked him down, he disappearedand kidnapped Liz. Now, Liz's friends race to find her as their old enemies band together for a final, catastrophic attack. **_The Black Goddess_ is the second of three arcs pulling together threads from the beginning of the seriesand leaving the B.P.R.D. and the world forever changed.**
After a catastrophic encounter with the monster god Katha-Hem, Dr. Kate Corrigan travels to rural France in search of an ancient text that might undo the death of Roger. Back at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Captain Daimio tells the story of his own death, Johann Kraus confesses to a bizarre love triangle arising from one of his séances, Abe recalls a mission with Hellboy during his early days at the B.P.R.D., and Liz reveals a weird tale of the family members she killed while discovering her fire-starter powers. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, with artist Guy Davis and cowriter John Arcudi, unravels a story that will determine the future of the B.P.R.D., while revealing key secrets about its past. This collection includes a sketchbook section that captures Guy Davis's development of the terrors unveiled in The Universal Machine. • Collects the five-issue miniseries.
The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense sends its team to permanently wipe out a subterranean colony of frog monsters. The team tracks down Memnan Saa’s hideout, but soon find themselves in over their heads when old enemies—including the Black Flame—arrive to lay waste to the world. Mike Mignola and John Arcudi are joined by Guy Davis to close out the Plague of Frogs in this omnibus collection of the B.P.R.D. series!
This collection of 2003's B.P.R.D. one-shots kicks off with an imprisoned goddess in a story by the Bastard Samurai creative team of Miles Gunter and Michael Avon Oeming, joined by series creator Mike Mignola. Artist Guy Davis teams with Brian Augustyn (Gotham by Gaslight). The Flash creative team of Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins create their first Dark Horse work, and Joe Harris, screenwriter of Darkness Falls, and his X-Men collaborator Adam Pollina reunite for Abe Sapien's weirdest adventure yet. Also includes a brand-new short story by Mignola and Cameron Stewart.
A story that began in the first issue of Hellboy concludes with the B.P.R.D. team set to permanently wipe out the subterranean colony of frog monsters. The team tracks down Memnan Saa's hideout, but soon find themselves in over their heads when old enemies like the Black Flame arrive to lay waste to the world. This is the fourth (of four) softcover collections of the Plague of Frogs storyline each one collecting three of the original B.P.R.D. trades.
Miles Gunter and Michael Avon Oeming, creators of _Bastard Samurai_, kick off a series of new adventures featuring Mike Mignola's team of paranormal investigators in _B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice_! Something's wrong with the water in Venicesomething so unusual that the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense have come to investigate. Exploding statues of a local goddess lead them to the haunted mansion of an ancient vampire and a grand marquis of hell. Mike Mignola lends a hand with the writing on this action-packed and eerie one-shot, with a cover by _Powers_ artist Michael Avon Oeming.
After the defeat of the mystic Memnan Saa, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defenseon the outs with the United States government after the bloodstained rescue of Liz Shermanembarks to the Ural Mountains, the site of _B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth_, to put the frog menace to rest once and for all. Meanwhile, Kate Corrigan heads to Hunte Castle in Austria, where Hellboy killed the Conqueror Worm, on her own rescue missionto save ectoplasmic special agent Johann Kraus, possessed by the ghost of Lobster Johnson. Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, and drawn by 2009 Eisner winner Guy Davis, _B.P.R.D.: King of Fear_ wraps up the Scorched Earth trilogy, which started with _The Warning_ and _The Black Goddess_. Guy Davis2009 Eisner winner for Best Artist!
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