Ooooooh shit!  It's been a wild season of things that happened.  We're gonna take a little break right now.  It was supposed to be for one thing, but that thing didn't happen so we weren't gonna take a break but now there's this whole other End Of Days pandemic thing so we're gonna take a break anyway, at least until the Days start again.  
But we weren't gonna let you go without engaging in that nerdiest of nerd activities; RANKING!  We're going through all the stories we've covered and we're assigning them absolute values in comparison to one and other.  Whatever we say, that's the final say.  Seth is almost totally right and Peter is a little less right than Seth, but we're both pretty right and you should change your opinions accordingly.  
We'll see you again if society doesn't collapse.  Stay safe, stay distant, stay home and listen to podcasts!

Peter and Seth were invited to pitch for a comics anthology of stories inspired by Bram Stoker's classic novel, Dracula!  It's a look inside the creative process as the two of us talk about what kind of story we'd like to do.  

What's in the box?????  WHAT'S IN THE BOOOOOOOX?!
Evil.
Evil is in the box.

Whoa, it's a climactic moment here, bro!  This is the last story we are gonna cover this season, bro!  It's a big moment for Hellboy, bro, cuz he's gotta really put that Beast Of The Apocalypse shit to bed, bro!

Oh man, shit is getting real for our boy!  What's up with that hand?  Why is Hellboy on Earth?  I dunno, probably nothing good.  Anyway, what movies do you keep going back to?  I forgot to mention Thor Ragnarok.  I think I've watched that four or five times in the two years since it came out.  So much awesome crammed into one movie.  Cate Blanchett vamps so hard in that movie and we don't even talk about it cuz we're so busy talking about Piss off ghost and Hulk's butt and Jeff Goldblum and Led Zeppelin but she's a great villain and, oh man, so is Clancy Brown's Surtur.  Yeah.  This podcast is not about Thor Ragnarok but maybe it should be? 

Don't do drugs and perform occult rituals at the same time, maaaaaaaan.  If this podcast ever gets big enough where we can set up panels at cons we'll get Mignola and Grant Morrison on stage together and hash this whole drug/occult thing out.  One story is about drugs and the other is about a hallucination but the episode is mostly about LEGOS I think. 

Imagine the Street Fighter 2 voice saying "Japan" and then Hellboy is in Japan.  And the other player is a swarm of flying cannibal heads.  Right?  The real question is, is this story racially insensitive?  As two white guys, we feel like we need to address the question.  Also as two white guys, we have no answers.  And now, a note from Peter:
  "I think the episode still sounds good overall, but maybe just put in a note that we had some minor technical issues while recording on my trash laptop, so there might be a skip in the audio here and there."
There you go.  Now you know which one of us writes these stupid descriptions.

Have you ever been to Norway?  Me neither but Hellboy has!  In the story we talk about today, which is called King Vold, that is where Hellboy goes, to Norway, in this one, today.
Cool!

This week we talk about the short story The Nature Of The Beast.  The first time we see some of a particular flavor of British mythology that will become important later on.  

Oooooh shit, bro!  We're doing PANCAKES, bro!  We're talking about two pages for over an hour!  Why?  Cuz it's PANCAKES, BRO!