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| Original Title: | Hellboy: The Wild Hunt |
| ISBN: | 1595824316 (ISBN13: 9781595824318) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/16-185/Hellboy-Volume-9-The-Wild-Hunt-TPB |
| Series: | Hellboy #9, Hellboy: The Duncan Fegredo Trilogy #2, Hellboy: Edición rústica #15, Hellboy Edição Histórica #10 , more |
| Characters: | Morgan le Fay, Hellboy, Astaroth |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2010) |
Mike Mignola
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.47 | 4945 Users | 194 Reviews
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When ancient giants begin to reawaken in the British Isles, Hellboy is invited to join an ancient band of fellow monster hunters called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But an unexpected betrayal sends Hellboy after a quarry far more deadly: the Queen of Blood, first seen in 2007's best-selling Hellboy: Darkness Calls. This newly reborn evil has her murderous sights set on all of humanity, and the only way Hellboy can stop her is to finally confront the truth about his own dark heritage.
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| Title | : | Hellboy, Vol. 9: The Wild Hunt (Hellboy #9) |
| Author | : | Mike Mignola |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | March 23rd 2010 by Dark Horse Books (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Horror. Fantasy. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.47 From 4945 Users | 194 ReviewsWrite Up Containing Books Hellboy, Vol. 9: The Wild Hunt (Hellboy #9)
Another great story as Hellboy rises to the top of my list of favorites. I actually thought this might connect with some of the Witcher video game mythos but I couldn't have been more wrong. This twisted until the anti climatic finale but you just know a great battle is coming and it will be done justice by Mignola. The King Arthur inclusion was interesting and a good deviation from the normal story. The great thing with Mignola is the ability to mould well established myths and legends intoThe Wild Hunt delves into Hellboy's past while setting up his future. This has that same charge you get when you feel a long story picking up steam as it charges into the final confrontation. Mignola mixes in the the fae, Arthurian legend, and English folklore to great effect. Tieing up many of his loose plot threads through the years, including his short stories which you didn't realize were part of the larger picture. There's less action and more world building than I expected. But the action
Hellboy comes out of hiding to take part in the Wild Hunt where giants are hunted and beheaded. This leads to a bigger story where his life's purpose is brought up, his heritage is revealed, and his destiny is presented to him. A new enemy, a dead blood witch, is raising an army to slaughter England and Hellboy needs to take up his mantle and raise an army to fight them. Duncan Fegredo once again takes over the art with Mike Mignola scripting the story. Fegredo is, I'm convinced, one of the
British legends, giants, witches, fairies, and Excalibur! I love the fast pace of Hellboy books to begin with , but this one had one of my fandoms, and that being the legend of King Arthur. I was shocked by the reveal into Hellboy's past, but is it true or just a trick? Exciting read.
Directly following up Darkness Calls, this volume follows up on the story thread of the new witch queen, which had run in the background in the previous volume. It also explores Hellboy's maternal line, and sets up what will probably be another interesting phase in Hellboy's life. The pace wasn't perfect, but overall, I was very happy with this installment. I'm still loving Fegredo's art.
I've spent the last few days trying to articulate or quantify my feelings about The Wild Hunt. It's pretty much the biggest turning point in the Hellboy universe up 'til now, and a lot of stuff happens in these eight issues. It's good, of course, but it's also a lot to take in and contextualize. I have a feeling that I won't really know how I feel about it until a little bit down the road.Some of the stuff that happens here sounds, on paper, like decisions I might not like, but Mignola pulls off
4 3/4 stars
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