Ah, right. I wanted to check, just so I can safely avoid spoilers.
I don't remember much noise being made about those first 10 issues of
Abe Sapien. I mean,
The Drowning, sort of came out of nowhere—it was part of that sudden expansion of the Hellboy Universe that happened following the release of
Hellboy: The Companion (the others being
Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus,
Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels, and
B.P.R.D.: 1946)—and the short stories
The Haunted Boy,
The Abyssal Plain, and
The Devil Does Not Jest didn't really have the momentum behind them that suggested further stories like
1946 did.
However, when
Abe Sapien shifted to an ongoing series with the beginning of the
Dark and Terrible cycle, I think fans were starving for more Abe. In the two years leading up to the series, we hadn't seen much of him and
Dark and Terrible came with the promise of exploring what Abe is.
There was even a "31 Days of Abe" promotional month leading up to the series (which ballooned into 34 days by the end).