ONE HELL OF A GOOD EGG!

April 3, 2008 on 7:16 pm | In Uncategorized

So, last weekend was Easter, and it’s taken me a bit of time to get my pics back, but I thought you’d want to check this out:

So my girlfriend’s family does something called “Egg Wars” every year at Easter; everyone in the family decorates an egg, then you go around the table and smash your eggs together. The one that doesn’t crack is declared the winner, and the last man (or woman) standing has his or her egg displayed in the family china cabinet until next year when it’s retired and buried in the backyard.

Being a rookie, I didn’t have much of a chance. But you know what? I love being the underdog, so when I whipped out my Hellboy Egg—based on Mike Mignola’s signature creation—I was understandably mocked for using a comic-inspired decoration.

Also, it seemed ironic (and a bit blasphemous) that I would enter a demonic-tinged egg into the competition on a day reserved to celebrate Christ rising from the grave.

Until I won the whole damn thing, that is.

Now, my Hellboy Egg is proudly displayed in the family’s china cabinet until next year…which may call for a Liz Sherman or Abe Sapien Egg as a companion piece!

So, while you bask in the glory that is my Hellboy Easter Egg, please make sure to go and check out all of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and B.P.R.D. comics. There’s a new Abe Sapien book out now, “The Drowning” that gives the amphibious adventurer his first starring role (the most recent issue hit Wednesday); while the BPRD: 1946 book takes a look back at the post-World War II origins of the monster-hunting band of heroes (think “The Dirty Dozen” meets “The X-Files”).
Go read ‘em now!