B.P.R.D. Volume 6: The Universal Machine

by Guy Davis, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi

After the catastrophic encounter with the monster-god Katha-Hem, Dr. Kate Corrigan travels to rural France in search of an ancient text that might undo the death of Roger. Back at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Captain Daimio tells the story of his own death, Johann Kraus confesses a bizarre love triangle arising from one of his seances, Abe recalls a mission with Hellboy during his early days at the B.P.R.D., and Liz reveals a weird...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593077106
• ISBN13: 9781593077105
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Dark Horse Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

OUTSTANDING. Best chapter yet

This has been a good series up til now. Now it is a great one and the turning point is this book. Arcudi's contributions to the writing are special. The characters are now truly characters with concerns, lives, etc. The action is still top otch ad Guy Davis' art continues to be excellent. His work shuffles along just telling the story and then some creature or other appears across a two-page spread and the reaction is, "Wow!" When I get the newest book in this series, I find myself going back to book one and starting over each time enjoying the whole saga.

Excellence in Sequential Form

As a longtime Mike Mignola fan (I've been collecting the single issue Hellboy since the beginning, as well as Mignola's other works), I'm slowing coming to the belief that BPRD is currently the better than the current Hellboy title. I was very disappointed that Mignola wasn't illustrating BPRD when it first got going. But I've been seduced by Guy Davis' artwork. The more I look at Davis' compositions the more I like it. The stories here in BPRD seem to be consistently a bit stronger than the current Hellboy story lines. The collaborative effort in this title seems to be it's strength. This is a fine collection that recounts the teams effort to save a team mate from death. Excellent all around. Strongly recommended.

A 19th Century Spirit

Mike Mignola writes very differently from the vast majority of comic artists today. His stuff reminds me a lot of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Alan Poe. Very rich, detailed stories - -plus the artwork is like looking at a woodcut print.

Very good, glad I got it

This continues the years-long story arc of the post-Hellboy BPRD. If you haven't been reading the previous graphic novels, this will be almost unintelligible to you. But if you have. . . we learn more, much more, about Captain Daimio (puzzling, if intriguing), get some distressing backstory of Dr. Kraus, get a painfully small reminisce of Abe and HB on assignment in the Canadian woods, and a touching vignette of Liz's past. The main story, so to speak, is Dr. Corrigan in the French Alps, trying to obtain one of those impossibly rare and eldritch tomes without which this genre of fiction would seem incomplete. I won't get into spoilers here, but the moment at which she triumphs over an adversary is easily the most satisfactory single panel I've seen in a Hellboy story in quite some time. And if you want to know what finally happens to Roger - this is the one to read.