Hellboy fans have been treated very well in the past few years, with 'Hellboy: The Wild Hunt' setting up the final stage of Hellboy's battle against the Queen of Blood, further addressed in 'Hellboy: The Storm' and 'Hellboy: The Fury'. With King Arthur's fabled sword Excalibur now in Hellboy's hands, the stage is set for the final battle with Nimue and her army of trolls, giants, goblins and anything else mythic and slightly evil.
I'm reletively new to the Hellboy comic universe, but I have loved the movies for years, and I was worried that by seeing them first my opinion of the comics would be a negative one. Not surprisingly I loved them just even more than the film adaptations, with the mythology of the Hellboy universe very easy to understand and delve into, without sacrificing depth and convolution.
Unfortunately, 'The Fury' isn't going to come out for a while, with Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo taking a break and simultaneously maximising the desire of rabid fans. But all hope is not lost, with two one-shots and a limited series slated for release in the next few months. The 'Hellboy/Beasts of Burden' one-shot teams up Hellboy with the team of paranormal detective animals to solve a mystery plauging their home twon of Burden Hill. With art by Jill Thompson and a script by Mike Mignola and Evan Dorkin, this one-shot looks like it'll be a good story and a lot of fun. In November we're being treated to 'Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil', a one-shot featuring two stories by Mike Mignola and art by Richard Corben. A one-shot comic featuring Hellboy, zombies and mummies sounds like a winner in my book, and with Corben returning his unique art to a Hellboy story i'm really looking forward to this one.
Finally in January 2011, the two-part miniseries 'The Sleeping and the Dead' hits the stands. Mike Mignola tells a classic vampire horror tale, as Hellboy meets a man with intimate knowledge of the coming vampire apocolypse. Whether this ties into an element of the Queen of Bloods war on all that is good and pure is yet to be seen, but the comic still promises to be another hit with fans. Scott Hampton teams up with Mignola for the first time, and even though I haven't seen any of his previous work, i'm confident Dark Horse has picked another artist that'll really gel with the Hellboy universe.
Well until we're given a solid release date for 'The Fury', these are the Hellboy comics we can expect to see in the near future. Needless to say the B.P.R.D. comic series is still going strong alongside Hellboy, and it has just as many releases scheduled in the next 6 months. I stll haven't begun reading it yet, but only because i'm waiting for my B.P.R.D. Omnibus (hurry up February, stupid time). So, until next time, hope this post has been informative and if you're interested, i'll be returning soon with reasons why the Hellboy one of the best comics out there at the moment. But you don't really need my reasons at all, just get out there and read them!
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