Spinning directly out of 2023’s Giant Robot Hellboy, Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Michael Avon Oeming, and Taki Soma explore the further adventures of Agent Jian in the Ghost of a Ghost series.
The four-issue Dark Horse Comics mini-series take places in the groovy and psychedelic 1960s. After being exposed to enkeladite (a radiated substance that often causes monstrous mutations), Agent Jiang finds herself working with a mysterious spy ring and using her new powers to keep the substance away from even more nefarious forces.
“Many of the stories that I’ve worked on in the Hellboy Universe have started with a conversation, with me having the germ of idea or Mignola having a half-formed notion that he wants to explore,” explains Roberson. “In some cases, the original inspiration is mostly mine and other times it’s mostly Mignola’s, but this one was a fully formed Mike Mignola idea from the beginning. At a convention a couple of years ago he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and explained to us what he had in mind for this character that he’d introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy, and then we got to work on realizing it. But from the very beginning we were all totally in sync with the vision that Mignola had for the character of Jian and her story, a jet-setting spy-fi thriller in the swinging Sixties, but approached in a way that we had never really seen used in a Hellboy Universe story before.”
“I’m excited to be working on another Mignola project with writer Chris Roberson and colorist Taki Soma,” said Oeming. “We’re bringing a fun 1960s retro spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if you have half as much fun reading it as we did making it, you’re going to love it.”
Ghost of a Ghost #1 will be available at your local comic shop on September 23.
Check out the main cover by Oeming and a variant cover by Dave Johnson below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your Hellboy news.
