The Amazing Screw-On Head

by Mike Mignola, Mike Mignola (Illustrator), Dave Stewart (Illustrator)

Overview

The triumphant return of Screw-On Head!


When Emperor Zombie threatens the safety of all life on earth, President Lincoln enlists the aid of a mechanical head. With the help of associates Mr. Groin (a faithful manservant) and Mr. Dog (a dog), Screw-On Head must brave ancient tombs, a Victorian flying apparatus, and demons from a dimension inside a turnip.

This beloved collection of oddball Mignola creations also includes "The Magician and the Snake" from Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings, and all fifty pages of additional material from the original hard cover, available now for the first time in paperback!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506728759
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	01/11/2022
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	233,592
Product dimensions:	6.63(w) x 10.18(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

Dave Stewart is a multiple Eisner Award–winning colorist who works for Dark Horse, Marvel, and DC Comics. His credits include Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin, Daytripper, and Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist.

Editorial Reviews

04/18/2022

This volume collects six short comics by Mignola (Hellboy), of which two are reprints, one ("Abu Gung and the Beanstalk") was redrawn and expanded from an earlier version, and three are original to the collection. The reprinted works—the title tale and "The Magician and the Snake," for which Mignola shares a writing credit with his seven-year-old daughter Katie—are both award-winners and are the most substantial stories. The others, though varying in length, are not disappointing but not entirely satisfying either, and the collection as a whole doesn't add up to much; elements and characters sometimes get carried from one story to another, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for it. Mignola's art (with colors by Eisner Award winner Dave Stewart) is up to its usual quality—he remains a powerful, visually interesting storyteller—and the stories fit his usual blend of fairy tales, steampunk, and Victoriana. VERDICT Nothing that will disappoint Mignola fans, but nothing to overly excite them either. Not recommended, except for serious Mignola completists.

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