She certainly doesn’t think of herself as evil.' 'I think there is a childlike innocence to her. 'I think she just does what she does and doesn’t really give it a lot of thought,' Mignola says. Leonide certainly has a sinister quality about her, but Mignola is hesistant to label her a villain so much as simply an undead being with a very mercurial nature. Naturally, it isn't long before strange and terrifying events begin consuming the village. This short graphic novel is set in a remote coastal village that encounters the titular, childlike vampire after a shipwreck washes her coffin ashore. Instead, Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at The Crow's Head is a completely new horror tale that features a whimsical look and feel very different from Mignola's usual comics fare.

Mignola does suggest, 'I suppose it could take place in some distant corner of the Screw-On Head universe.' Mignola's other big release for October 2022 isn't connected to the Hellboy/BPRD universe, or even Mignola and Golden's Outerverse comics. Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at The Crow's Head While the opening story arc, 'Goblin Night' is two issues in length, the series spans five issues in total, allowing Mignola, Golden and Smith to explore the full scope of Hellboy and Anastasia's year together. Hellboy in Love will also be longer than many recent Hellboy projects. And once Matt Smith came on board to draw some Hellboy stuff, we KNEW he was the right artist.' 'It was really just a matter of waiting for the right time and, most importantly, the right artist. 'Ever since The Lost Army we knew that we would do some kind of series covering the year or so they spent together,' Mignola tells IGN. Hellboy in Love jumps back a decade before the events of the novel to reveal how the two met and explore that whirlwind romance at its very beginning.

Anastasia Bransfield, an archaeologist who also happens to be Hellboy's ex-girlfriend. Hellboy in Love can be viewed as a prequel to cowriter Christopher Golden's 1997 novel Hellboy: The Lost Army. But its real claim to fame is that this limited series aims to flesh out a forgotten romance from Hellboy's early years. Like all these recent tales, Hellboy in Love is a period piece, in this case set in punk rock-era London. Hellboy in Love is another welcome remidner that there are still plenty of Hellboy stories left to tell even after the main Hellboy/BPRD saga wrapped in 2019.

Hellboy by Mike Mignola