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Review: “Hellboy In Hell” #6
Review by – GreenBasterd
After a short hiatus Hellboy returns to the scene in his sixth issue of “Hellboy in Hell”. With all the references in the “B.P.R.D.” and “Abe Sapien” to events in Hell, it is crazy to see how much this ongoing influences the rest of the Mignolaverse. Hellboy is clearly at a bit of a loss as to what to do since death but fortunately for him Hell is full of people who would love to take a shot at the champ, occupying his thoughts in the process.
WRITTEN BY: Mike Mignola
ART BY: Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Comics
RELEASE DATE: May 14
PRICE: 2.99
Picking up right where we left off in the previous issue, Hellboy is given a geography lesson on Hell by new undead friends until his conversation is rudely interrupted by a damned soul wanting to play a hand of cards. Hellboy once again is in for more than he bargained for. What started off as a simple card game turns into a life and death struggle but there is always more beneath the surface when Mike Mignola is at the helm. As the story comes to a close interesting events occur that foreshadow our protagonists uncertain future.
These books always come as a treat. Mignola is gifted in his craft, to put it simply, and this book is a testament to that fact. The first highlight of the writing is the pacing of the story. It starts off slow but quickly jumps in pace leading to the last few pages with a whirlwind of action. The careful storytelling consumes me entirely, and I never want it to end.
A fantastic aspect of most Mignola work, including this series, is his ability to interject small panels with simple illustrations and one or two words that can add so much depth and tone. This issue is riddled with these types of panels that give Hell a very eerie and lonely feeling, having a major influence on the overall delivery. This is someone who understands the medium of comics like no other.
Never has an artistic tandem impressed me more than Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart; the simplified style that Mignola is famous for is brought to life the by Stewart’s soft colour pallet. One panel that I really love is of Hellboy draped in shadows as he is walking from beneath an archway with playing cards raining down on him and from the depth of that archway two red glowing eyes are visible. This is just one panel of many I could say is my favourite but for me this single illustration represents Hellboy himself, always trying to break free from the shadows but there are always sinister powers at work trying to stop this from happening.
Really a fantastic issue, it comes and goes fast but its layout makes it feel like its own little story arc. Hopefully future issues really start to tie Hellboy back into the grand scheme of things.
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‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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