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In the wake of Roger the homunculus' apparent demise, his B.P.R.D. colleagues brainstorm resurrecting him and trade the backstories that space episodes of the main attraction, consultant Kate Corrigan's search for an occult volume that may contain a spell to rouse the stone man. The quest leads up an Alp into a hidden, timeless alt-world in which Kate is trapped while her assistant holes up in a phone booth surrounded by werewolves. Mignola had this dandy yarn sitting around for years, awaiting a context. Guy Davis draws it to an angular T. Delightful. Ray Olson
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After the 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 a bizarre love triangle arising from one of his seances, 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 firestarter powers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very good, glad I got it, Mar 2 2007
By Robert Walker-Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: B.P.R.D. Volume 6: The Universal Machine (Paperback)
This continues the years-long story arc of the post-Hellboy BPRD.If you haven't been reading the previous graphic novels, this
will be almost unintelligible to you. But if you have. . .
we learn more, much more, about Captain Daimio (puzzling, if
intriguing), get some distressing backstory of Dr. Kraus,
get a painfully small reminisce of Abe and HB on assignment
in the Canadian woods, and a touching vignette of Liz's
past.
The main story, so to speak, is Dr. Corrigan in the French Alps,
trying to obtain one of those impossibly rare and eldritch tomes
without which this genre of fiction would seem incomplete. I won't
get into spoilers here, but the moment at which she triumphs over
an adversary is easily the most satisfactory single panel I've
seen in a Hellboy story in quite some time.
And if you want to know what finally happens to Roger - this is
the one to read.
4.0 out of 5 stars
BPRD Vol. 6, May 3 2012
By jonathan briggs - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: B.P.R.D. Volume 6: The Universal Machine (Paperback)
It's understandable that the B.P.R.D. is preoccupied with death. In the previous volume, "The Black Flame," almost 2,000 people died in a confrontation with the monster god Katha-Hem, and one of the victims was very dear to the misfit heroes of the Bureau. So the conversation back at headquarters takes a gloomy turn as Abe, Daimio, Liz and Johann recount individual experiences with death that shaped their lives (Whoa! Daimio's face was bitten off by a nun!). During this coffee klatch, Kate Corrigan travels to a cursed village in France to bargain with a Mephistophelean collector for a book that could hold the blueprint for resurrection. Coz in comic books, every character comes back from the dead. Or do they? It's nice to see Hellboy back with his Bureau buddies, even if it is just a flashback, and it's an even bigger treat to have Mike Mignola himself handle the artwork for a very touching coda and bittersweet farewell to a friend.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Universally brilliant, Nov 10 2010
By Sam Quixote - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: B.P.R.D. Volume 6: The Universal Machine (Paperback)
Kate Corrigan goes to a French town with a strange past of werewolves and mad princes to meet with an antique dealer who might have the answer to bringing back Roger. Meanwhile at BPRD HQ Abe, Liz, Daimio, and Krauss share stories of their past including wendigos, giant jungle hybrids, and ghost loves.The Corrigan story is the best part of the book possibly because Mignola originally wrote it years ago for a Hellboy story and substituted Hellboy for Corrigan. Myths and legends blend into the Lovecraftian fantastique in this story with caged demons held in thrall by bat nosed vampires and a powerful wizard with a closet full of golems. Corrigan proves her mettle in this book which is great as she's usually a side character at best, but we see why she's in the BPRD here.
Some of the stories told by the other characters as a reprieve from the main story are good. Hellboy pops up in Abe Sapien's story of sad wendigos in the Canadian wilderness while Daimio's Rambo-esque tale of jungle fighting is cool and is similar to future books in the series particularly Vol 12: War on Frogs.
One of the best books in the BPRD series, we bid farewell to a stalwart from the earlier books and Mignola even illustrates some of the final pages. Great fun for those who like the supernatural in their comic books.
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