“Hellboy: Strange Places” Omnibus Volume 2 collects more than 400 pages of story and sketches, chronicling more tales of the demon raised as a boy created by Mike Mignola.

In addition to Mignola’s signature art style, comic book legend Richard Corben supplies the art for one story collected here.

Hellboy’s story starts during World War II when a conjurer attempts to call forth a doomsday demon. He calls forth the right demon but it is in its infancy and is intercepted by a professor who raises the demon as if this Hellboy were his son.

From the crown that forms whenever Hellboy hasn’t sanded down his horns to the massive nature of his right hand, everything indicates that Hellboy is the creature that is the king and key to destroy everything.

Though a demon may be his nature, he was nurtured to be a human. Hellboy may have been created for Ragnarok but he has a choice to be a force for humanity.

And his choice for decades has been working with a government agency to curtail evil demons and spirits with bad intent.

And Nazis.

Hellboy stops a lot of Nazis.

Nazis who have managed in all sorts of arcane and bizarre ways to survive since the fall of the Third Reich decades earlier.

Here, Hellboy and readers learn more about him, his destiny and his choices.

The Hellboy saga has been collected in four massive omnibus volumes and two volumes of short stories.

The comic is not as humorous as the movies starring Ron Perlman in the title role but are a great read while waiting for the possibilities of the “Hellboy” movie reboot scheduled for release this spring.