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B.P.R.D. Volume 6: The Universal Machine (B.P.R.D Graphic Novel) Kindle & comiXology

by Mike Mignola (Author), Various (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
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Abe Sapien follows a strange clue to the jungles of Indonesia and a secret society with connections to his past life during the American Civil War. Meanwhile, Liz's apocalyptic visions have begun to escalate, and Johann makes a startling discovery about a member of the Bureau.

Written by John Arcudi and Hellboy and B.P.R.D. creator Mike Mignola, and drawn by Guy Davis, Garden of Souls offers a window into the bizarre backstory of Abe Sapien and his colleagues in the mysterious Oannes Society—complete with Victorian cyborgs, doomsday devices, and a very well-preserved mummy.

• Collects B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls #1-#5.
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In the wake of Roger the homunculus' apparent demise, his B.P.R.D. colleagues brainstorm resurrecting him and trade the backstories that space episodes of the main attraction, consultant Kate Corrigan's search for an occult volume that may contain a spell to rouse the stone man. The quest leads up an Alp into a hidden, timeless alt-world in which Kate is trapped while her assistant holes up in a phone booth surrounded by werewolves. Mignola had this dandy yarn sitting around for years, awaiting a context. Guy Davis draws it to an angular T. Delightful. Ray Olson
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A820UT6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books (January 16, 2007)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 16, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 446153 KB
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Mike Mignola is best known as the multiple award-winning creator, writer, and artist of "B.P.R.D." and "Hellboy", but has fostered several other projects like "The Amazing Screw-On Head" and "Baltimore" with Christopher Golden. Although he began working as a professional cartoonist in the early 1980s, drawing 'a little bit of everything for just about everybody' - including characters like Batman and Wolverine - he was also a production designer on the Disney film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". Mignola also acted as a visual consultant to Guillermo del Toro on "Blade 2" and the film versions of Hellboy, which were broadly adapted by del Toro from the original comic series. Mike Mignola currently lives in southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

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The inside of the book is the only good quality of this product. The cover and corners of the book is in super rough shape, and it is filthy.
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David Keith
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence in Sequential Form
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2007
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As a longtime Mike Mignola fan (I've been collecting the single issue Hellboy since the beginning, as well as Mignola's other works), I'm slowing coming to the belief that BPRD is currently the better than the current Hellboy title. I was very disappointed that Mignola wasn't illustrating BPRD when it first got going. But I've been seduced by Guy Davis' artwork. The more I look at Davis' compositions the more I like it. The stories here in BPRD seem to be consistently a bit stronger than the current Hellboy story lines. The collaborative effort in this title seems to be it's strength. This is a fine collection that recounts the teams effort to save a team mate from death. Excellent all around. Strongly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love this graphic novel series
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
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I love this graphic novel series. This particular book was delivered a little damaged that I had not anticipated based on the condition rating.
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jonathan briggs
4.0 out of 5 stars BPRD Vol. 6
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2012
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It's understandable that the B.P.R.D. is preoccupied with death. In the previous volume, "The Black Flame," almost 2,000 people died in a confrontation with the monster god Katha-Hem, and one of the victims was very dear to the misfit heroes of the Bureau. So the conversation back at headquarters takes a gloomy turn as Abe, Daimio, Liz and Johann recount individual experiences with death that shaped their lives (Whoa! Daimio's face was bitten off by a nun!). During this coffee klatch, Kate Corrigan travels to a cursed village in France to bargain with a Mephistophelean collector for a book that could hold the blueprint for resurrection. Coz in comic books, every character comes back from the dead. Or do they? It's nice to see Hellboy back with his Bureau buddies, even if it is just a flashback, and it's an even bigger treat to have Mike Mignola himself handle the artwork for a very touching coda and bittersweet farewell to a friend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2016
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Great in good condition
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Sam Quixote
5.0 out of 5 stars Universally brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2010
"The Universal Machine" is divided into halves with the main story being Kate Corrigan going to a mysterious French town with a strange past of werewolves and mad marquises, to meet an antique dealer who might have the answer to bringing back Roger, the dead golem. The second half is set at BPRD HQ where Abe, Liz, Daimio, and Krauss share stories of their past including wendigos, giant jungle hybrids, and ghost loves.

The Corrigan part of the book is spectacular. Set in an isolated village, overlooked by the ruins of a castle on a hill reputed to once house werewolves, the reader is enveloped in the eerie atmosphere of the disturbing village. The old fashioned village and uneasy tone of the situation feels very MR James, a superb ghost story writer. The horror references continue inside the antique shop/haunted painting, which feels like an ETA Hoffmann nightmare crossed with the dark fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm. Myths and legends blend into the Lovecraftian fantastique with caged demons held in thrall by bat nosed vampires and a powerful wizard with a closet full of golems. Corrigan proves her mettle in this book which is great as she's usually a side character at best, but here we see why she's in the BPRD. This part of the book is simply amazing, it's Mignola firing on all cylinders and is pure joy to read. That scene where Devon is trapped in a phone booth at night surrounded by werewolves - and then one of them stands on its hind legs, walks over to the glass and starts talking? What a scene!

Then we head back to Colorado where the rest of the BPRD are telling sad (and exciting!) stories of their past. Some of them are pretty good, though they don't come close to the Corrigan thread. This is because Mignola wrote Corrigan's part and John Arcudi wrote these kinda-campfire-but-set-in-a-cafeteria scary short stories- and Arcudi's simply not as good a writer as Mignola. Hellboy pops up in Abe's story of sad wendigos in the Canadian wilderness while Daimio's Rambo-esque tale of jungle fighting is cool and similar to future books in the series, particularly Vol. 12: War on Frogs, when the story becomes heavily action oriented. Liz's tale is straight up classic horror in the mould of the 1950s horror comics, while Krauss' is a love story with a twist. They're enjoyable enough and add variety to the main story as well as more background to these characters, so they're a strong inclusion.

"The Universal Machine" is definitely one of the best books in the BPRD series. We bid farewell to a stalwart from the earlier books and Mignola even illustrates the final pages - which, by the way, is an excellent ending with a very beautiful, stark visual. If you enjoy spooky comics, don't be put off by the "Vol. 6" label and just go right ahead and pick this one up. Granted, if you've not been following the series then you're not going to understand the asides to Roger, but the book is centrally a series of self-contained tales, so it works as a standalone book of gothic horror stories, as well as part of the series as a whole. I just loved this book, it's one of the best things Mignola's ever written and well worth reading.
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WPrajer
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done, as usual.
Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2015
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I read this while waiting for Frankenstein Underground's first story arc to conclude. Little to report here, beyond giving Mignola full points for an economic story line and painting it up with the usual cartoon-Gothic splendor.
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