My version of the real world isn’t all that realistic – there aren’t all that many cars – but I wanted to throw Hellboy into a world that was entirely made of all the things I would draw if I had no job and could just draw whatever I wanted. I’ve been surprised at how pleasant hell is, in your comics. This is the end of the series.” There’s one big thing he has left to do, or maybe two. So originally it was going to go on forever, and then it was going to be four books, and then I replotted it so it was three … And I guess by the end of issue eight, which is out, he’s sitting under a tree and it just suddenly felt like, “Oh. But even by the end of issue five, I started realizing: “There’s this one big story we’re telling.” I tried to do standalone stories, but I’d had him kill off Satan, which I somehow thought wasn’t going to be a big deal, but the weight of that thing took over the book. My thing of getting him off the world into hell was just so I could do these stories where he rambles around. Hellboy in Hell, as originally conceived, was radically different than what I ended up doing. Mike Mignola: ‘It’s been at least 25 years since I didn’t have jobs lined up’ Photograph: Christine Mignola/Supplied
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