I explore the connection between theology and graphic literature (such as comic books). New comics are released every Wednesday. Hence, Wednesday Theology.
Hellboy: What are they?
Demon: Misspent lives. Not the great monsters, but the common damned.
Hellboy: And who decides who's damned?
Demon: Each man's soul is his own. How he chooses to spend it...
That is for each man to decide for himself.
Dr. Kate Corrigan: The text of The Secret Flame is Ini-Herit's partial transcription of the great Tabula Smaragdina -- The Emerald Tablet.
Supposedly engraved by the Greek god Hermes on a stone that fell from the head of Lucifer when he was cast out of Heaven.
A pretty strange mixture of pagan and Christian mythologies, if you ask me.
Adoet de Fabre: So you do know about it.
But of course, Lucifer is not the name of the fallen angel. That mistake originates from a misreading of Isaiah 14:12.
I've had it with all this Beast-of-the-Apocalypse crap!
Hecate: Accept the truth of your existence or be destroyed!
You cannot escape your destiny!
Hellboy: Gonna try.
Hecate: Time is coming to ring down the curtain on man.
Already the Four Horsemen are loose in the world.
It is for us to darken the sun, turn the moon to blood, and put out the stars...
Then you and I alone, forever, in the dark --
Hellboy: Shut up!
Not gonna happen...
...'Cause you're very, very ugly...
...and...
...You have a giant snake body!
