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Christopher Brayshaw haastattelee Mignolaa 1996, www-osoitetta en tiedä, ompi ollut omalla kovolla tallessa jo vuosia.
BRAYSHAW: John implied in one of the notes that ran along with the first mini-series that he was technically the scriptor but in fact felt he'd done not very much at all. Is that just him being complimentary, or did you in fact do the bulk of the work on the mini-series yourself?
MIGNOLA: I hate to say he's right. Because, one thing that has to be said is, I could never have done this book without John. I didn't have enough confidence... I kind of needed to see someone else do it to see what I wanted to imitate, and what I wanted to do differently. But the way John and I ended up working, again originally I thought I would give him half a plot and he would finish the plot, he would add a bunch more stuff. Well, as I recall, I would call him and say, "I'm going to do this and this." And I'd call him a couple of days later and say, "Oh, and I'm going to do this, this, and this." And by the time I was actually drawing pages, I never sent him a plot. I don't know that I'd ever explained the whole plot – I know I told him vaguely what I was going to do – but I never sent him a plot. So I did finished artwork, pencils, and then I had it sort of scripted so he'd have some idea of what the hell people were saying. So I found, yeah, certainly in some places I was doing almost word for word dialogue. John did create some of the names for the characters. But I think the script is mostly mine. Most of the copy, Hellboy's thoughts, that's all John. I wanted that, but that's real writing to me. That's not what I do. So I left it for John to do all that stuff. Ultimately, I would decide that I didn't want that, Seeing it done, I said, "I don't want to get inside this character's head. I just want guys talking to each other." So when I began doing it all myself, I dropped all that kind of stuff.
BRAYSHAW: Did you think it was necessary to get a look at the finished product to know what you wanted to edit further or to tighten further or to change once the series came together?
MIGNOLA: Yeah. Probably I'd make a good art director. I don't know what I want, you turn it in, and I'll tell you if it's right or not. Yeah, I thought at various times that I've known what I wanted, and then once I see it I go, "Well, that's not quite what I wanted." John wasn't far off, but seeing it done made me think, "Okay, I would have done this a little different, and I would have had her say..." In a lot of cases it was just one word... "That would have had more punch if it had been this." And actually I hate to say it, but towards the end of the mini-series, I was doing a lot of editing of John's script. Thank God John put up with this.
Eittämättä suurin heikkous Hellboyssa on tarinoissa, tai pikemminkin niiden toistuvuudessa. On siellä paljon hyviäkin tarinoita (suomennetujen lisäksi The Corpse, The Chained Coffin, Pancakes, Box Full of Evil), mutta The Conqueror Worm alkoi jo tuntua vanhan lämmittelyltä. Onneksi Mignola lupasi että se jää viimeiseksi Hellboy vs. Nazizombiet tarinaksi. Onttoa, kevyttä, perusmättöä, toisaalta mitä voi odottaa tarinalta jossa on kivisen käden omaava sarveton piru, natseja, Chulthu-mönkiäisiä, vampyyreja ja turpiinmättöä.
Isoin anti minulle on siinä miten se kaikki on kerrottu.
