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Back in 2017 CE, NorsePlay posted about author Christopher Golden writing a Hellboy novel where Big Red gets Mjölnir fused to his oversized mitt and suddenly has to deal with the monsters of Norse Lore coming out of the woodwork. Later in 2021 CE, Dark Horse put out a graphic novel adaptation. The graphic's scripted by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, and with artist Matt Smith and colorist Chris O’Halloran doing Mignola's visual style to a chiaroscuro'd tee you can't really tell the difference. Now while Hellboy  as a comic is always good (though I argue BPRD 's better and will get to why), the sequence leading to the page panels above gives us Mignola's it's-always-the-apocalypse feels and customizes that to it's-always- Ragnarök feels. So you might ask: Does the story attempt to reconcile Hellboy's antichrist-rejection religious context with polytheistic Norse Mythology? No, but it doesn't have to, and Hellboy deals with much cosmic/divine ...