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 Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:54 pm
Turns out I hadn't collected comics in a couple of months (and live in the UK, so I'm behind anyway...) But I picked up a copy of BPRD: The Ectoplasmic Man (a one-off issue) today.
It's good! It's the origin story for Johann Kraus, and rounds him out wonderfully - he'd come off as a bit of a jerk after he got that body, so it's good to see something that paints him in a better light again.
Especially as he's my favorite character...
Anyone else read it?
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:50 pm
Although I'm over in the US, I haven't grabbed this one yet. I order mine over the internet (You have no idea how ridiculous it is being the only female going into a comic book shop) because it's easier, but I usually wait for the TPB/Collections to come out before I get it.
And I definitely agree that Johann came off as a jerk when he had a body. It was kind of scary for me because I really like that character too. Although, I'm not sure If I can blame him... who wouldn't do what he did? He's been without his senses for so long. At least he got laid before his body died.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:39 pm
I think in the previews I saw for the Hellboy 2 movie how he kept pestering Manning about he didn't like german guys. poor johann ^^
where did he get his basic hate for germans? was it the whole nazi thing?
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:45 pm
Danah-Hime I think in the previews I saw for the Hellboy 2 movie how he kept pestering Manning about he didn't like german guys. poor johann ^^
where did he get his basic hate for germans? was it the whole nazi thing? Yes, it's the Nazis. Hellboy seems to be unable to differentiate between German Nazis / soldiers and Germans in general, though he seems to understand German in the comics. He speaks a crapload of languages.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:14 pm
O.o Well with his job he probably would be linguistically cultured like that.
I just couldn't help but laugh when I saw Krauss movie-verse. He looked more like a spaceman! XD
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:10 pm
He made me think of the character Skool from the book un-lun-dun, which is about an alternate version of London where all the broken and useless things go (such as broken umbrellas). Skool looks like a diving suit from the '30s, and at the end of the book you find out he's controlled by a school of fish. Like how Johann is articulated by ectoplasm.
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