–Hellboy uses a broken sword. It could be made of bronze and enormous enough for a statue
–In Wind in the Willows there could a duel between Toad and Weasel on the gable roof. There Toad [?] him in the face
–Chase through skylight valley. Hellboy.
–The lightning overexposes TOAD WEASEL.
Attic in Toad’s mansion
Redesign Hellboy’s overcoat for the movie…
Embossed BPRD patch into the leather of the jacket.
Should the upper part be any darker??
–Collar kept standing up with TAPE.
–Military campaign–style cape helps give him a “Mignola” outline
–For the machine that opens the cosmic portal (the gyroscope), CGI needs to be used for realism.
Make it longer than in the comic to help the outline and hide the tail.
GOTHIC LINES
GOTHIC LINES
GDT: Well, one of the gags here [opposite] is in the movie, which is Hellboy sliding. I wanted him sliding and shooting backward.
Above him is a really early design of the Samaritan, and this is the page where I came up with the name “The Good Samaritan” for the gun. People think it’s in the comic. It’s never been.
The bottom was something that I wanted to do that is not there. It was like a Jacques Tourneur moment in which you see Sammael’s shadow in the foreground.
Then in the middle, I like to play with the flashlights. We did some of that, but not to that degree.
–He grinds his teeth so hard when he smiles that one of his front teeth breaks. With push in.
–We need to give the pistol a name
–Ellipses with fluttering of moth wings.
–Hellboy falls down a ventilation shaft while fighting with Sammy
–Even though it’s a revolver, the pistol should eject cartridges like an automatic. The silencer might retract
The Good Samaritan.
–When the underground dwellers are killed, hobos warn them about Sammael and his enormous appetite.
FLASHLIGHTS
–Shadow and bone noises in the museum.
–Hellboy gets punched but manages to land well. He breaks the tiles in a straight line as he slides across them.
–Kroenen should listen to his Wagner records with a refined, absolute delight.
–Kodo drum ensemble, but without techno elements.
–Trip to Japan with Lorenza, Marianne, and in- laws courtesy of Blade II. I hope the movie is a hit in this country. I want to take my girls to Ghibli Museum to see Miyazaki’s stuff.
Hellboy sets a booby trap filled with barbs. He’s the one who sets it off: “Trigger” in the floor
Yellow light.
–Concrete tunnel in Tokyo.
–Dessert: NATAREKOKO.
LANDMINE sends barbs flying when it explodes.
NATAREKOKO
Scarlet
Kroenen’s mask. Made of white porcelain or black leather with a bright red device that fits over his mouth
–Push in and follow HB as he backs away.
–There should be some Oriental influence on the design of Kroenen’s Nazi uniform. Flags with [swastika]
–Amaniga moves his creatures really quickly despite the fact that they’re so large.
–Sammael’s voice should be made by fusing three voices played backward that alternate pronouncing letters:
–We left the hotel early and ate sushi in the street—a disaster.
Amber light illuminates Sammael as he eats a guard.
The smoke from a blackout heightens the backlight.
–Paint job a la Z II on his face.
–The world’s greatest paranormal detective. He doesn’t really detect that much. He’s a bit of supernatural bouncer.
–For the set’s metallic finish refer to Chichone.
–Sammael attacks Left-Right and then vice-versa, in serious ass-kicking mode.
–He stabs his arm.
GDT: This page [opposite] is from a visit to Japan to promote Blade II, with my daughter and my wife. I love those concrete shapes in the tunnel. They ended up being in the BPRD in Hellboy.
Then I saw a Japanese mask that had no bottom, and I thought, “Wouldn’t it be great to give Kroenen a mask like that, but full of tubes that are red in the bottom, maybe kind of gory?” And he basically has the mask.
On the right is a sculptural detail, and in the middle is a Japanese sign that says “natarekoko,” which is a dessert that I was eating at the time.
Then on the right-hand page [above], in the middle, I wanted Sammael to stab Hellboy, and I didn’t do it—PG-13.
On the top, I wanted Sammael to be eating a corpse, backlit against the steam of the intestines of the corpse. But at the end of the day, two things prevented that: PG-13 and the fact that the horns and the protruding bones in the shoulder blades had to go. Backlighting the silhouette we ended up with would have been very boring, so I hung him upside down instead.
Dust rearrange
–The device HB uses to find the corpse. GEIGER.
They move up and down like switchblades
Long snout, skull with no skin on it
His snout pulls back like a lion’s mane revealing the bone below
Bladder
Ear or not?
Abe’s mouth hyperextends like a fish’s mouth.
Fish mouth at rest.