Squid of Man

Tad Stone, who is producing the first two of what are sure to be more than two Hellboy: Animated features for Cartoon Network, has revealed a lot of info about the upcoming movies, and...well, there's a bit to get excited about, and a lot to be...less excited about.

Apparantly they focus almost entirely on Hellboy, so there's little love for the rest of the B.P.R.D. No Johann. No Roger. AND NO LOBSTER JOHNSON. You fucks. Kate Corrigan will feature in the second film, though, so hopefully the animated films can get Hellboy's love interest right.

The plot for the first movie, "Storm of Storms", is apparantly very Alice-in-Wonderland-ish. Hellboy falls down a well, and some big bad guy is moving Japanese monster-like chess pieces into his path. He also gets a sword. And, I may be going out on a limb here, but I also presume he punches the shit out of things.

All sounds...well, dependable enough, but in the wake of the Screw-On Head pilot there's not much to get excited about with these films. It shows what an animated feature on a Mignola comic should look like, and this...this doesn't look like it. It's cool that Ron Pearlman is back as Hellboy, but the return of the entire film cast along with him just makes me think this is going to be a spin-off of the films, not the comics.

Which is bad news.