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I had an interest in reading the B.P.R.D. series because of my intense love for the Hellboy films directed by Guillermo Del Toro. He always brought so much life to such an underground project, that I really wanted to see where all of this creation of his stemmed from. Obviously B.P.R.D. is not Hellboy, but actually the "corporation" if you will, that he and other paranormal entities worked for. This novel starts with Hellboy having just left the B.P.R.D. to pursue his own things, and leaves Abe Sapien (popular character from the film) as well as Johann (who made his appearance in Hellboy 2) to fend for themselves. There is also a character named Roger who wasn't given much background, but fit in with the crew none-the-less. I really enjoyed the first half of this novel, which was the Hollow Earth story. The artwork was great, and there seemed to be that underlying humor in a lot of the dialogue that Del Toro found and used so cleverly with the characters in the film. However, the latter half of this novel is a random collection of other stories having to do with the B.P.R.D. and I can't say they're as entertaining. The artwork is a lot different, and I found the lettering especially hard to read. Other than that, I enjoyed this graphic novel in place of not being able to get my hands on some Hellboy novels. I do really enjoy the character of Abe Sapien, so maybe that was the reason the first half of this was much more entertaining than the second half, which has a limited amount of Abe and others.