Question for those who've seen Hellboy.

[dewinged]

Okay. Haven't seen the movie yet. I mean, the commercials looked kinda neat, in that 'I want to go see an action film' sort of way. But, do I have to know the comics to understand what's going on in the film? Know of Hellboy, never read any of the books.

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[edg.livejournal.com]

Not whatsoever. As the earlier poster mentioned, Guillermo del Toro is obviously a huge fan of the comics, but he's also made the film to be perfectly understandable to newcomers as well.

That said, there are in-jokes and references that only readers of the comics are going to understand, but in all honesty, that's perfectly natural. And if it gets more people reading the comics, well, that can't possibly be bad.