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Mike Mignola and Katii O'Brien teased some Lobster Johnson plans for 2022 in a short interview with Forbes.
[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2021/04/01/face-the-clawof-justice-mike-mignola-teases-future-plans-for-lobster-johnson/amp/[/url]
I wish there were plans for 2021...
[QUOTE=miguel1984;5465502]Mike Mignola and Katii O'Brien teased some Lobster Johnson plans for 2022 in a short interview with Forbes.
[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2021/04/01/face-the-clawof-justice-mike-mignola-teases-future-plans-for-lobster-johnson/amp/[/url][/QUOTE][quote]Apr 1, 2021, 11:00am EST
[B]Face The Claw...Of Justice! Mike Mignola Teases Future Plans For Lobster Johnson[/B][SIZE=1]
Josh Weiss - Contributor - Hollywood & Entertainment
[/SIZE]The salt water tank of vigilantism is far from empty, folks. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics will once again be pinching crime in the buttocks with brand-new stories centered around the violent pulp and noir-inspired hero known as Lobster Johnson (aka “The Lobster” or “LoJo”).
“There are a couple of Lobster Johnson things in the early planning stages. Very early, so that’s as much of a tease as you’re going to get,” Mignola exclusively tells Forbes Entertainment during an interview about the forthcoming Hellboy omnibus box set.
“We are working on some plans for LoJo, there will be fresh versions of the older material as well as some newer stories in the works,” adds Dark Horse editor Katii O’Brien. “We are far from done with him, and readers can expect to see some Lobster Johnson in the next year!”
An influential role model for a growing Hellboy, Johnson first scuttled onto the scene in 1999’s Hellboy: Box of Evil #1. The semi-apocryphal figure was famous for battling monsters, and Nazis in Depression-era Manhattan. He’s basically Mignola’s ode to Captain America with a bloody twist of Quentin Tarantino thrown into the mix (imagine if Steve Rogers burned a red hot lobster claw insignia into the foreheads of his vanquished foes, and you’ve got the picture).
The Lobster’s career came to an end when he was killed during a raid on a German science outpost in Austria. Nevertheless, he later appeared to Hellboy as a ghost.
Over the last two decades, LoJo has received his very own standalone adventures like The Iron Prometheus, The Burning Hand, Satan Smells a Rat, Get the Lobster, A Chained Forged in Life and The Pirate's Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown. In addition, he was the subject of a 2009 prose novel, The Satan Factory, written by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
“The trick with the character is to keep him relatively low key, and that's great because then you can actually do stories about crime,” Mignola said in a 2013 interview with Comic Book Resources. “The fact that he is still regarded as a mythical, 'Was he real or not?' character means you're forced to maintain a certain mystery about him.”
The mysterious character made his live-action debut in 2019’s big screen Hellboy reboot, where he was played in a World War II flashback by Thomas Haden Church.
“The costume for Lobster Johnson is spot-on, or 99 percent exactly what was in the comic,” Mignola remarked to Vulture around the time of the film’s release. “That’s taken a lot of getting used to, seeing my work so represented on screen. So that was pretty cool.”[/quote]I do get nervous when articles have an "April 1" dateline to them . . .
"Ode to Captain America"? When will The Shadow get the respect he deserves, smh...
[url]https://hellboy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Torch_of_Liberty[/url]
They should team up.
[QUOTE=the illustrious mr. kenway;5472717][url]https://hellboy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Torch_of_Liberty[/url]
They should team up.[/QUOTE]That can be complicated depending on when the Torch was last in action[SIZE=1] (and if John Byrne would sign off on it)[/SIZE].
[QUOTE=MajorHoy;5465724][QUOTE=miguel1984;5465502]Mike Mignola and Katii O'Brien teased some Lobster Johnson plans for 2022 in a short interview with Forbes.
[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2021/04/01/face-the-clawof-justice-mike-mignola-teases-future-plans-for-lobster-johnson/amp/[/url][/QUOTE][quote]Apr 1, 2021, 11:00am EST
[B]Face The Claw...Of Justice! Mike Mignola Teases Future Plans For Lobster Johnson[/B][SIZE=1]
Josh Weiss - Contributor - Hollywood & Entertainment
[/SIZE]The salt water tank of vigilantism is far from empty, folks. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics will once again be pinching crime in the buttocks with brand-new stories centered around the violent pulp and noir-inspired hero known as Lobster Johnson (aka “The Lobster” or “LoJo”).
“There are a couple of Lobster Johnson things in the early planning stages. Very early, so that’s as much of a tease as you’re going to get,” Mignola exclusively tells Forbes Entertainment during an interview about the forthcoming Hellboy omnibus box set.
“We are working on some plans for LoJo, there will be fresh versions of the older material as well as some newer stories in the works,” adds Dark Horse editor Katii O’Brien. “We are far from done with him, and readers can expect to see some Lobster Johnson in the next year!”
An influential role model for a growing Hellboy, Johnson first scuttled onto the scene in 1999’s Hellboy: Box of Evil #1. The semi-apocryphal figure was famous for battling monsters, and Nazis in Depression-era Manhattan. He’s basically Mignola’s ode to Captain America with a bloody twist of Quentin Tarantino thrown into the mix (imagine if Steve Rogers burned a red hot lobster claw insignia into the foreheads of his vanquished foes, and you’ve got the picture).
The Lobster’s career came to an end when he was killed during a raid on a German science outpost in Austria. Nevertheless, he later appeared to Hellboy as a ghost.
Over the last two decades, LoJo has received his very own standalone adventures like The Iron Prometheus, The Burning Hand, Satan Smells a Rat, Get the Lobster, A Chained Forged in Life and The Pirate's Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown. In addition, he was the subject of a 2009 prose novel, The Satan Factory, written by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
“The trick with the character is to keep him relatively low key, and that's great because then you can actually do stories about crime,” Mignola said in a 2013 interview with Comic Book Resources. “The fact that he is still regarded as a mythical, 'Was he real or not?' character means you're forced to maintain a certain mystery about him.”
The mysterious character made his live-action debut in 2019’s big screen Hellboy reboot, where he was played in a World War II flashback by Thomas Haden Church.
“The costume for Lobster Johnson is spot-on, or 99 percent exactly what was in the comic,” Mignola remarked to Vulture around the time of the film’s release. “That’s taken a lot of getting used to, seeing my work so represented on screen. So that was pretty cool.”[/quote][/QUOTE][SIZE=1]2022 still seems so far away . . . [/SIZE]
Is there any plans for any Lobster Johnson Omnibus collections?
Some TPB volumes are impossible to find.
[QUOTE=Destro777;5544115]Is there any plans for any Lobster Johnson Omnibus collections?
Some TPB volumes are impossible to find.[/QUOTE]It might also be interesting if they had a collected edition specifically of the Lobster Johnson-related appearances that were in [B][I]B.P.R.D.[/I][/B].
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(In case people aren't getting ALL of the [B][i]B.P.R.D.[/i][/B] collections)[/SIZE]
[QUOTE=Destro777;5544115]Is there any plans for any Lobster Johnson Omnibus collections?
Some TPB volumes are impossible to find.[/QUOTE]
Nothing concrete. They will happen eventually, but the series is written out of chronological order, and some of the earliest stories haven't even been written yet. The omnibuses will collect the series in chronological order.
Hey! It's 2022 now!
Guess we just have to wait and see what[SIZE=1] (if anything) [/SIZE]does come up this year, aside from the story that was in [B][I][FONT=Century Gothic]Hellboy and the BPRD 1957: Forgotten Lives[/FONT][/I][/B].
Okay, we got [B][URL="https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3008-408/Hellboy-Universe-Essentials-Lobster-Johnson-TPB"]HELLBOY UNIVERSE ESSENTIALS: LOBSTER JOHNSON TPB[/URL][/B] back in March, which collected [B][I]Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand #1-#5[/I][/B] originally from 2012. Has anything else been mentioned regarding the Lobster for 2022 release yet?
Is [B][I]Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death[/I][/B] what they were talking about in terms of "future plans for Lobster Johnson"?
[QUOTE][img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/young_19.jpg[/img]
[B][I]YOUNG HELLBOY: ASSAULT ON CASTLE DEATH #2[/I][/B]
As Hellboy struggles in the grip of a mysterious illness, a Brotherhood operative inside the B.P.R.D. brings an assassin within striking distance! But even with a fever, young Hellboy has an ace up his (pajama) sleeve . . . or is that a familiar calling card?[/QUOTE][SIZE=1]
[URL="https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3009-512/Young-Hellboy-Assault-on-Castle-Death-2"]https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3009-512/Young-Hellboy-Assault-on-Castle-Death-2[/URL][/SIZE]
[QUOTE][img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/young_20.jpg[/img]
[B][I]YOUNG HELLBOY: ASSAULT ON CASTLE DEATH #3[/I][/B]
The feverish Hellboy, aka the Scarlet Crab, breaks into the ghoulish Castle Death accompanied by his dog Mac and a surprising but familiar face. But the castle holds strange and dangerous occult items that do not mix well with Hellboys hallucinations--especially when the shadowy Brotherhoods assassin makes his move![/QUOTE][SIZE=1]
[URL="https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3009-513/Young-Hellboy-Assault-on-Castle-Death-3"]https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3009-513/Young-Hellboy-Assault-on-Castle-Death-3[/URL][/SIZE]
I assume so.
[QUOTE=MajorHoy;6111701]Is [B][I]Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death[/I][/B] what they were talking about in terms of "future plans for Lobster Johnson"?[/QUOTE][QUOTE=middenway;6112455]I assume so.[/QUOTE]That would be disappointing.
I had hoped we'd at least get a one-shot or a short feature story with The Lobster and his crew somewhere / somehow. :(