We didn't plan this thing as far back as when we started BPRD '46, '47, but the beauty of what we've done with Hellboy is there's this gigantic chunk of years where we've seen almost nothing with him, except a few short stories here and there. It was Hellboy in '49, and it just felt like a logical progression of those things. John did a little sequence, a flashback sequence, in BPRD. With Hellboy getting weirder and weirder, with the Hellboy in Hell stuff, it just felt like we were really missing classic, old school Hellboy, and there's a real pleasure to writing Hellboy when he was a much simpler character, before the whole apocalypse nonsense and death.
It was a matter of finding the right artist, and that's why we did it now, because we found the right artist.
It's something we've been talking about for a while, and probably, if we had really focused a little bit earlier, it would have been the perfect book for the 20-year anniversary.
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