Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #5

Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #5

Dark Horse Comics
(w) Mike Mignola
(a) Duncan Fegredo
FC 32 pgs w/ ads $2.99 US / Higher in Canada

We are five issues into Hellboy’s latest mini-series and Mike Mignola drops one heck of a bombshell in this issue. Seriously! I won’t spoil it but there’s a hint on the cover.

For the last few years Hellboy has been a pretty good read but it has been more and more overshadowed by its brilliant spin-off title B.P.R.D. This latest mini-series has been pretty good, bringing several story elements that have been building over the years to the foreground and now this issue. Damn – Mike is still has a few surprises up his sleeve.

Things are about to change for Hellboy and I’m really looking forward to the rest of this series. (Shane Hnetka)

Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels #1

Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels #1

Dark Horse Comics
(w) Mike Mignola
(a) Ben Stenbeck
FC 32 pgs $2.99

Sir Edward Grey – the Witchfinder graduates from background supporting character to his own mini-series. This mini-series looks at one of Sir Edward’s many occult cases. In London 1878, there have been several murders. Each man appears to have been drained of blood and torn to shreds. Sir Edward is called on the case and quickly discovers that a man called Lord Wellington and the dead men were all apart of a expedition that had disturbed some ancient evil that was resting in the remains of an ancient city out in the Sahara Desert.

Ben Stenbeck art’s is pretty good for this mini-series. After his work on the B.P.R.D.: The Ectoplasmic Man one shot, he seems to be becoming one of Mignola’s stable of artists along with Guy Davis and Duncan Fegredo. Mignola’s writing as always is spot on. Although I was hoping for a story about the history of Grey and how he wound up living in the shadows observing Hellboy’s various adventures – that story will apparently be told later down the line. For now I’ll have to enjoy this series. (Shane Hnetka)