None of this was planned- I never thought it would be about that. My original plan for Hellboy was to do these six or eight pages that are his origin and never say another word where he came from, just having him be like a regular guy with him looking so absurdly demonic, which would be the running gag and nobody would ever mention it. But I realized when I wrote the second series, where there’s a moment that Hellboy realizes he doesn’t think about what he is and I realized this guy is just in denial, which made it so much more interesting to deal with because you have a guy who says , ‘Yyeah, I’m sure there’s something going on there because I have a tail and hooves, but I choose not to think about it because if I look into it, it’s not like I’m going to find anything good, so I’ll just ignore that.’ But little by little, as the series goes along, it’s like you get to a point where you have to deal with your situations. As the series goes along, we’ll deal with it more directly and address who he is, what his purpose was and really what I’ve come up with, is that he’s screwed [laughs].
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