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Baltimore Volume 2: The Curse Bells Hardcover – June 12, 2012
| Mike Mignola (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDark Horse
- Publication dateJune 12, 2012
- Reading age14 years and up
- Dimensions6.9 x 0.6 x 10.5 inches
- ISBN-101595826742
- ISBN-13978-1595826749
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- Publisher : Dark Horse; 5/13/12 edition (June 12, 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1595826742
- ISBN-13 : 978-1595826749
- Reading age : 14 years and up
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.9 x 0.6 x 10.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,396,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,271 in Vampire Horror
- #2,447 in Dark Horse Comics & Graphic Novels
- #4,415 in Horror Graphic Novels (Books)
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About the authors

Mike Mignola is best known as the multiple award-winning creator, writer, and artist of "B.P.R.D." and "Hellboy", but has fostered several other projects like "The Amazing Screw-On Head" and "Baltimore" with Christopher Golden. Although he began working as a professional cartoonist in the early 1980s, drawing 'a little bit of everything for just about everybody' - including characters like Batman and Wolverine - he was also a production designer on the Disney film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". Mignola also acted as a visual consultant to Guillermo del Toro on "Blade 2" and the film versions of Hellboy, which were broadly adapted by del Toro from the original comic series. Mike Mignola currently lives in southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Ararat, Red Hands, Snowblind, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, and Of Saints and Shadows. Golden co-created (with Mike Mignola) the comic book universe known as The Outerverse, featuring such characters as Baltimore, Joe Golem, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Hex Life, Seize the Night, and The New Dead, among others, and has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, a BBC radio play, and the online animated series Ghosts of Albion (with Amber Benson). A frequent speaker at conferences, schools, and libraries, Golden is also co-host of the podcast Defenders Dialogue, and the founder of the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. The winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best novel in 2017 for Ararat, Golden has been nominated ten times in eight different categories, winning twice. He has also been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award, sharing a win in 2020 with James A. Moore for the anthology The Twisted Book of Shadows.
Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com
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I really enjoyed this segment of Mike Mignola's character Lord Baltimore and his experience with The Curse Bells. The main premise in the story seems to be that people are inherently evil, and it is only in making conscious choices to help others that they become human.
Mike Mignola's version of vampires in this story is that people once worshipped them as gods, but after people acquired more knowledge and evolved from their inherent base nature, vampires lost their hold over humans until the horror of modern warfare made them relevant again.
In this volume, Lord Baltimore has had everything but his thirst for revenge taken away from him by one of these ancient creatures, and as he follows his path of personal retribution, Lord Baltimore runs straight into an even greater evil that is manifesting itself in a war torn Europe; the way this malevolent issue is presented at the end of World War I resonates with historic significance... And the irony of Lord Baltimore's situation is that he too is being hunted by a religious fanatic determined to eradicate malevolence from the remnants of the plague savaged landscape, so the decisions Lord Baltimore makes are sure to have significant consequences in the next volume of Mike Mignola's Lord Baltimore.
The blood drenched art work is my favorite part of the book: humanities life vitae flows in crimson waterfalls from carillon bells to fall earthward and splash upward in violent counterforce as it strikes pools of plasma puddles that roll over the dead and run down stony steps to infuse a variety of horrific characters with a liquid, vibrant red: vampires as huge bats; rotting vampire nuns torturing themselves with cross flagellation and Eucharist immolation; soldier warlocks intent on taking on the world; bloody female dwarf homunculus so evil they cannot be killed. All this and much more are drawn to create a tortured landscape where even the most innocent appearing youth is stained with evil.
This is a dark and foreboding tale told for those who have strong constitutions and the courage to deal with the possibility that evil is only waiting for the right spark to bring it to life.
Baltimore is not set in the Hellboy universe but it's not far removed. The over story of Baltimore pursuing his revenge on a Vampire and dealing with various other supernatural horrors along the way is excellent on it's face. The sub nature of the story with him dealing with the fact that he is now a champion against supernatural evil, (sounds silly when you say it and probably feels worse when you know it's true) is compelling and gives the character depth. This second comic chapter is stronger and a better read than the first.
perfectly. Cannot wait to read the next volume. Highly recommended.
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a bloody birth provokes terror in a small european town,
as lord baltimore takes on the twisted blessings of vampiric nuns and an insane warlock
while continuing his hunt for the creature at the heart of his obsession.
read it, it is a really great horror comic, you a doing yourself a disservice by not reading it.
the first one is a little bit better but not by much.
Et toujours la "patte " Mignola délicieusement horrifique avec des personnages complexes.Great Lord what à pleasure.
Das positive gleich vorneweg: "The Curse Bells" ist wie sein Vorgänger "The Plague Ships" herausragend gezeichnet. Ben Stenbeck gibt der Serie um den gnadenlosen Monsterjäger weiterhin ihr düsteres Gesicht und das mit sichtlicher Freude. Egal ob dämonische Wesenheiten oder die oben schon erwähnten Nonnen, optisch kommt man hier als Horrorfan weiterhin auf seine Kosten. Auch die Verarbeitung des edlen Harcoverbands und des Papiers fühlen sich gut in der Hand an , genau wie das stimmige Vorwort von Horrorautor Joe R.Landsdale und die Skizzensammlung den Band abrunden.
Doch noch so jeder schön gemachte Umschlag, kann kaum den Inhalt eines Buches retten, wenn dieser nicht stimmt und so ähnlich sieht es auch mit "The Curse Bells". Das bedeutet nicht, dass die fünfteilige Geschichte (fünf US-Ausgaben im Original)schlecht wäre, im Gegenteil, sie ist sehr routiniert geschrieben. Zu routiniert leider.
Es wird gekämpft, es wird geredet, hier und da blitzt sogar etwas trockener Humor auf, aber obwohl sich alle Mühe gegeben wird, bleibt die eigentliche Handlung eher spannungsarm ("blutleer", wenn man unbedingt ein Wortspiel anbringen möchte), was auch an der etwas schwachen Ausgangslage liegen mag. Haigus, der oben erwähnte Vampir, befindet sich hier in einer prekären Lage und Lord Baltimore wird sehr in sich gehen müssen, aber wer das Buch kennt (oder zumindest das Gesetz der Serie kennt) weiß, dass dieses zaudernde Verhalten vollkommen bedeutungslos ist und Baltimores Charakter nicht weiterentwickeln wird. Ergo wird die Grundidee der Geschichte damit bedeutungslos und so verliert sie einen Großteil an Gewicht. Außerdem wird ein weiterer Nebenstrang eröffnet, der zwar für weitere Bände wichtig sein wird, sie aber auch dringend benötigten Tempos beraubt. Wenn der Bösewicht (nicht Haigus selbst) dann auch so gut wie kein Charisma verströmt und man sich auch für ihn nicht zu interessieren vermag, sollte man spätestens dann merken, dass hier etwas nicht stimmt und weder Mister Mignola noch Mister Golden hier als Autoren eine Meisterleistung erbracht haben.
Was bleibt also am Ende?
Eine weder gute noch schlechte Erzählung, die man als Übergangsstory zum (hoffentlich bald erscheinenden dritten Teil)liest und der hoffentlich eine viel bessere Fortsetzung folgen wird.









