Book Review: Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death by M. Mignola et al.

Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death story by Mike Mignola and Thomas Sniegoski, art by Craig Rousseau, colors by Chris O'Halloran, and letters by Clem Robins

In 1947, the B.P.R.D. Headquarters moves from the New Mexican army base to an abandoned movie studio complex in Connecticut. Young Hellboy is not so comfortable there. He even gets some sort of sickness. A fever dream has him as a sidekick to Lobster Johnson, who needs his protege's help to stop a Nazi attack on America. Hellboy gets out of bed and starts wandering around the buildings. Meanwhile, an agent from the Brothers of Desolation (an order founded to stop the Apocalypse, which they assume Hellboy will cause) has come to the new HQ to kill Hellboy. The agent sneaks onto the base the same night that Hellboy goes wandering around.

The story is charming for the most part. The agent trying to kill Hellboy has got to be the slowest moving assassin ever. Other than that, the fever dream action is a fun excursion into childhood fancies. The art follow the lighter tone of the previous Young Hellboy even with a somewhat darker storyline. 

Recommended, highly for Hellboy fans.