Hellboy vol. 5: Conqueror Worm.

Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, the fifth volume of the series takes its name from a poem by Poe. In this strange book, in my opinion not one of the best in Hellboy, Roger and Lobster Johnson are the real heroes of the adventure.

Our heroes fight the Nazi menace of a space incursion into the Void, thus bringing to Earth the Conqueror Worm that will obliterate the Earth and bring their darkness world. And Hitler was into it as the leader of the 3rd Reich.

It was a chaos and the castle fall down. But the crazy bunch of Nazi monsters remain there, I’m not sure what for. The mystical halo that Mignola wanted to add to this story made it more tiresome.

To me the best is the Guillermo del Toro’s introduction idea that BPRD are in fact Hellboy’s “benign captors”. It made me thought and it was the logical germ that forces Hellboy to go out of their list.

The ending of the book showcases the main villains, from Baba-Yagah to Rasputin. And their speeches on what are going to be the development of the future of Hellboy. But, aside this part, the story is a little unnecessary addition to the Hellboy canon. Well, it is my opinion, but this series won in 2002 the Eisner.