headquarters with a captured frog monster and Director Manning reveals that the spore Dr. Chapter 2 Ībe, Kate, Liz, Roger, and Johann have returned to B.P.R.D. Platt who has been working on scientific research into fungi and has grown a giant specimen in the lab. The B.P.R.D.'s enhanced talents taskforce are called in to investigate when Professor Derby infiltrates a classified research facility in New Jersey and shoots dead Dr. stories had been told this was the first to be written solely by Mignola himself.Īllie also added that whilst this story and subsequent mini-series would see the title develop more along the lines of a standard ongoing series, albeit one with regular breaks, it would go against the conventions of the comic book industry to profoundly change the fictionalised world in which it is set forever. Each issue featured a cover by Guy Davis.Įditor Scott Allie stated that this series goes back to the roots of the Hellboy series concept, which Mignola originally conceived of as a team book until the character of Hellboy took over and dominated the book, and although previous B.P.R.D. comic book miniseries, written by Mike Mignola with art by Guy Davis and published by Dark Horse comics. series.ī.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs was originally published from March 2004 through to July 2004 as a five-issue B.P.R.D. B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs is the third trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D.

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