“Hellboy: Sword of Storms” airs tonight at 8:30 p.m. on Cartoon Network. The animated special features the voices of Ron Perlman and Selma Blair. Rumor has it that it’s more like the comic book than the movie, which is a good thing.

Meanwhile, MTV aired an interview with “Helboy 2” director Guillermo del Toro where he said, “We are literally in the early stages of preproduction. We’ve been designing the thing, and we are going to be shooting in April or May of next year. It’s a bigger story than the first one, and it is actually a larger scope. It’s similar to [del Toro’s upcoming flick] ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ in the fact that the everyday world is grinding fantasy into the ground. Everyday life is creating a mundane reality and destroying fantasy. All of the main characters are coming back.”

The sequel is slated for a 2008 release.