Mike Mignola (W/Cover), Duncan Fegredo (A), and Dave Stewart (C)
When ancient giants begin to rise from their graves across England, Hellboy is invited to join a mysterious group called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But the hunt leads to betrayal, and Hellboy finds himself up against enemies as angry about what he is as what he’s done. “The fading children of the earth” gather in the shadows, waiting for the promised return of the Queen of Blood, and a chance to once again “shake the trees, crack mountains, and make the daytime world weep in fear.”
Available: 12/03/2008
REVIEW by Brian Fisher
Now this is more like it! After the great but far too short “Chapel of Moloch,” we finally get a story worthy of Hellboy. Sweeping and epic, “The Wild Hunt” follows HB as he’s summoned to England to take part in a hunting trip. Their quarry? Giants. But all is not as it seems. It may not be illustrated by Mike Mignola, but it is written by him. And if there’s a perfect second to Mignola, it’s Duncan Fegredo. Mignola has a very distinctive style and had solidified himself as the ultimate HB artist. But Fegredo, I daresay is a bit better than Mignola, borrowing from his style but with more expressive and detailed line work. This is the epic Hellboy story that fans have been clamoring for for a long time, and the first issue does not disappoint.
