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Actually, he doesn't once smoke a cigar in the comics. Always cigarettes.... I think it was changed to a cigar because of the character archetypes associated with cigars ("The working man") rather than archetypes associated with cigarettes ("The cool guy").

I like the quiet moments, too. There are several in the comics, but they aren't usually ones involving Hellboy. Liz, Abe, and Roger all seem to have more relaxed moments. Roger's are often whimsical- they're some of my favorite parts. Abe's and Liz's are usually inward-looking and reflective. They aren't very 'jolly' stories by any means, although Odd Jobs has some really amazing stories that aren't very action-y.

Oh, and unfortunately it's not that they're popular. Barnes & Noble's, Borders, and a lot of other major book store lines simply do not carry Hellboy graphic novels or any other Dark Horse novels, though they'll order them if you ask. I have never in the history of my fandom found one of the major chains to carry them. sad

There's a picture in the back of "The Chained Coffin and Other Stories" that was made by some artist other than Mignola. The picture is of HB looking at a magazine called "Hellgirls".

Yeah, he's definitely not addicted. He really doesn't have an addictive personality.
Does he really smoke a cigar? What chapter was that in?

Oh, yeah, the Domovoi. I remember when I was little (my mother taught English to Russian and Ukrainian immigrants) one of my mom's students told me about Domovois to the best of her ability. His English was imperfect, but the point was that I learned about them and I've always imagined one living in my parents' house in the guest bedroom. It would explain why my dogs used to start barking at random times at nothing in particular.

I've since scrapped that idea for the presence of a poltergeist in the house instead. I remember being eleven or twelve and watching a cup slide two inches away from me and then two inches back. To this day I have no scientific explanation for that event, but I keep searching. There's gotta be one somewhere.

At least I don't have to fight vampires and crap. Can you imagine working for the BPRD? It'd be crazy.

I wouldn't want to be inhuman. I find it distasteful to imagine myself as anything other than what I am... xd I'm kind of hopeless that way.

If you order off of TFAW they ship it to your house in about a day.

That's a distinct possibility.

Real Cigars, Small Cigars, and Cigarettes are all very different from one another. In my opinion, none of them smell good.

Please don't call him a half-demon. That implies that it's like some lame unoriginal anime.
As for the chemicals, I'm almost positive that's not the case. He functions identically to a human in pretty much all things and he's immortal.