Hot on the heels of their 2023 series, Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea, Mike Mignola and Jesse Lonergan are back in December with the four-issue Miss Truesdale and the Rise of Man series.
“My ending the Hellboy world (sort of) in the B.P.R.D. series, I now find myself fascinated by the very beginnings of it,” said Mignola. “Miss Truesdale and the Rise of Man is not a story I would even attempt to tell without the storytelling genius of Jesse Lonergan. For me, coming up with the story was a rollercoaster of strange surprises and Jesse has made it even stranger, more beautiful than I could have imagined. This is the deepest dive yet into the world and how it all works.”
In the new series, Miss Truesdale finds herself still bonded to ancient gladiator, Anum Yassa, and still searching of answers about her past, present, and future lives, with a number of supernatural threats to waylay her as he proceeds on her journey.
“With Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea, we explored this past life relationship between a woman in Victorian England and the ancient gladiator she was in a past life,” said Lonergan. “Now, in Miss Truesdale and the Rise of Man, those two characters are merged, a Victorian woman in this powerful gladiator body, exploring a new world and battling all manner of monsters and beasts. These travels and battles culminate in a confrontation that reveals deep truths about the Hellboy Universe.”
If you’d like to know more about the previous series, check out our exclusive interview with the artist right here.
Check out the standard and variant covers by Lonergan below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your Hellboy universe news.
