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Sorry if this is a stupid question. But does the plot of the 2019 movie spoil anything from the comics?
I grew up watching the first 2 GET films and always wanted to read the comics. So I ended up doing so in the recommended order. I’ve read the first 4 library editions and the first omi of BPRD plague of frogs.
If I watch the 2019 movie will it spoil anything major for my future reading?
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Sort of but not really. If you read the four library editions, the material the movie pulls from is in volume 5, "The Wild Hunt". It's true-ish to the comic, but much like the GDT movies, it's not quite true enough.
If you want to wait to read the book first, so you avoid spoilers, that's fine...but not really necessary as when you finally do read the book you'll be confused by a lot of the choices the movie makes.
I would say minor spoilers. The movie moves pretty fast so they skim over a few important comic plot points. The 2019 movie is more derivative of the comics than the Ron Perlman HB movies.
I don’t think the movie spoils the end of the hellboy comic series though. Still great payoff to finishing the main comic. And having gotten this far reading, you will appreciate a lot of the content in the movie that a casual viewer would not care about.
YES, it spoils The Wild Hunt arc and trust me, it will be TERRIBLE if your first experience with this story is with this film. There is an "explanation" (I'm avoiding spoilers) about Hellboy in this story, and it was very poorly developed in the film.
The Wild Hunt (and Darkness Calls) is present in volume 5 of the Library Editions, since you have already read the first four volumes there is NO REASON for you to experience the inferior version of the same story first. I also recommend that you read volume 6 too and at least Plague of Frogs/BPRD up to volume 3 for the same reasons (or even better, up to volume 2 of Hell on Earth/BPRD volume 6).
Trust me, it would be MUCH better for you to have ALL this baggage before seeing the film, just to know all the concepts that were poorly adapted in it.