#captain benjamin daimio

[waw1x]

That's me, I'm Navarro.

[hugnslair]

Captain Benjamin Daimio, B.P.R.D.

[davidalvarezart]

Hi all, I share with you a new BPRD portrait (+WIP), Captain Benjamin Daimio. He's a BPRD "double face" but with a Mignola's touch. He has the jaguar spirit which allow him to turn into a powerful monster but without control :( Cheers, David

[quarkmaster]

Captain Daimio

Hi all, I share with you a new BPRD portrait (+WIP), Captain Benjamin Daimio. He's a BPRD "double face" but with a Mignola's touch. He has the jaguar spirit which allow him to turn into a powerful monster but without control Cheers, David

David Alvarez

[eddycurrents]

BPRD: The Black Flame - Chapter One

Story: Mike Mignola & John Arcudi | Art: Guy Davis | Colours: Dave Stewart | Letters: Clem Robins

Originally published by Dark Horse in BPRD: The Black Flame #1 | September 2005

Collected in BPRD - Volume 5: The Black Flame | BPRD: Plague of Frogs - Volume 2

Plot Summary:

Captain Benjamin Daimio’s tenure as field commander of the BPRD continues on apace as he, Liz, Johann, Roger, and a squad of agents continue burning a swath through the escaped pods of frog monsters, discovering a horrifying revelation as they go.

Reading Notes:

(Note: Pagination is in reference to the chapter itself and is not indicative of anything found in the issue or collections.)

pg. 1 - Louisiana license plates as a possible clue as to how far the Plague of Frogs has spread at this points. Also interesting to see another altar and crude implements of tools.

pg. 2 - The BPRD as guns-a-blazing action heroes is certainly a different take.

pg. 3-5 - Great action scenes from Guy Davis and Dave Stewart.

pg. 6-7 - Love the repetition of actions, panel transitions, poses, and phrasing between Daimio and Roger. Though it does have the frightening aspect that Roger is taking on the personality and mannerisms of the Captain. Not sure that’s a good thing.

pg. 7 - It’s also interesting that they recognized that the frog monsters are developing some kind of communication, possibly even art and ritual maybe.

pg. 8 - It’s sad that Liz and Johann feel like they’re losing Roger to Daimio. Hellboy was definitely a better role model.

pg. 9 - The amount of agents that they’re losing to the frog monsters is staggering. When the BPRD are apparently strapped for cash, per Manning in The Dead, how are they keeping up with their insurance and ability to fill all of the personnel holes from dead agents?

pg. 11 - It’s never just one.

pg. 12/13-15 - More great action sequences of the BPRD vs. the frog monsters. Great double page spread showing just how many of these creatures there are, and an interesting discussion of their tactics.

Really nice use of colour from Dave Stewart, the firefight really feels incendiary.

pg. 16 - Daimio certainly does seem callous about the loss of his agents. For someone whose “number two objective...is to keep my men and women alive”, he seems pretty bad at upholding that objective.

pg. 17 - The antagonism between Daimio and Liz can’t be good overall for the greater team’s morale. It also underlines as to how little he seems to respect Liz. It still makes you wonder if his desire to lead the BPRD’s field team is simply predicated on wanting to eliminate all monsters, even good ones.

pg. 19 - Yeah...these breeders are pretty disturbing.

pg. 20 - Even more so when one of them bursts. It’s amazing that Navarro isn’t dead by misadventure already.

pg. 21 - Love that Liz is just done with Daimio’s crap. Though it is interesting, giving his just cutting through the frog monsters with reckless abandon, that he’d want to shut it down and take time when it’s now Liz burning through them.

pg. 22 - Gorgeous art from Davis and Stewart.

pg. 24 - Who’s the creepy guy in the bottom level scooping up the tadpoles?

Final Thoughts:

This is definitely a different kind of opening for the BPRD, all gung-ho action and violence, as the team gets back on task toward tracking down and eliminating all of the frog creatures as begun in Plague of Frogs, and as outlined as the primary purpose for this branch of the BPRD by Daimio in The Dead. Given how thorough, how brutal, and how recklessly the team is cutting through them, you really have to wonder what Daimio’s angle is. Other than spiriting away that demon monkey in a jar last arc, he’s not given any outward signs that he’s got any nefarious ulterior motives, but he’s definitely aggressive and his attitude is causing conflict among the team.

I also think it’s interesting that the frog monsters have a culture. The earlier instances of them in Hellboy largely gave the impression of mindless monsters, but not so here. You see them here using crude tools, fashioning altars, and instituting a kind of breeding programme. It makes sense, to a certain degree, if they’re supposed to be the next race of man that they’d retain some sort of intelligence.

d. emerson eddy shows no signs of intelligence.

[waw1x]

Where are all my Ben stans at

[waw1x]

Rb cause I fucking miss Daimio and all his funny ass lines. I want him fucking back :'

That's me, I'm Navarro.