Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt
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- ISBN13: 9781595824318
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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When very ancient giants start to reawaken in the British Isles, Hellboy is invited to join an very ancient band of fellow monster hunters called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But an unexpected treachery 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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Volume 8 and 9 are connected. You need them both to see the entire thing. you also want to hold them both so you can reflect about the huge picture. Accordingly, I say you buy that one and this one togehter, but DO NOT READ about 9 until you end 8.
Thank you to persons who have done so and to persons who did not alike. I just want nothing to be ruined when you look the wording over.
So you want to know a small more about Hellboy. While you are at it, you want to know how a few demons, some Arthuranian legends, a sword long thought long, as a small thought on Liz, a person that has been hit by a small poison, the Iron Maiden we haven’t seen since Rasputin chose that a name should be place into it, and a few lies about Giants fit together? As from breing part of a gargantuan run-on thought – sorry, my terrible – it is the thing that Hellboy finds himself involded in.
Unlike most of the Hellboy comics, this one is hard to comment on lacking giving osme really huge things away. Still, something can be said to wet you appetite and that is “Hellboy and a certain lady that doesn’t drown despite her intake of water have something to do with one another.” This is not-so-vague and connects to something said eariler, and it reveals a thought long in the building. Hellboy finds this out when he storms a castle – not an simple feat and perhaps not really a excellent thing considering what he is – and has a chat inside. Some of it feels like a lie but, if it is not, then Hellboy and a certain Island are in for it. This made me chill when I read it – the spine that is – and I kept thinking “that is a BIG thing to reveal!” It also made me marvel if Mignola has been waiting to dangle that carrot into front of us all along, and has just now chose to do it.
Regardless, you need it.
How does this compare? Well, there are two parts to this and I cannot say that one is better than the additional. The first is about an army being raised and the second is about revelation, building the reader reflect “pleased days.” It also brings back a certian small guy who got the iron treatment before waking up a giant pig, apt something horrible, and now wanting to be himself. He was a small sad and I understood his plight, only wanting to burn the world so he could bring sexy back to his neck of the hood.
The mood nd the way everytrhing plays out – it is all excellent. Hellboy is coming into his own and he is understanding more about himself. He creeps with oddities, kicks it with the dead (and they are really nice hosts), and he makes me pleased. He really doesn’t need the BPRD – it needs him.
And you need this – buy it and like it AFTER you buy 8, please.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
In The Wild Hunt, Mignola masterfully continues to unfold the Hellboy universe with yet another captivating chapter of the horned-one’s struggle to overcome the his bitter birthright. In particular this effort manages to bring a strong sense of forboding and dread to the Hellboy saga while still weaving in a few new revelations and beings rumor has it that more treacherous and dreadful than any witnessed to date. Another plus is the continuing contribution to the Hellboy series from illustrator Duncan Fegredo. More than a few of us have had the unfortunate experience of alternative up a Mignola creation featuring his stunning artwork on the take in…only to open the pages to find a less than stellar effort from the artist or artists rendering the actual tale (vol. 1 of the Lobster Johnson graphic novel serves as a sad example.) Suffice to say, Duncan Fegredo’s work is nothing fleeting of incredible and truly captures the original drama, styling and artistic mastery of Mignola’s work. At times, dare I say it?…Fegredo even surpasses MM.
Overall, an exceptional addition to the series.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Just when you thought Mike Mignola had revealed everything there was to know about Hellboy, he pulls a surprise out of the bag. “Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt” is the starting point for a brewing supernatural war, with our red anti-hero right in the middle of it… and the largest problem is that the “demon destined to ruin the world” subplot feels like we’ve been there before.
After the death of the last king of the Tuatha de Danann, giants start to rise across the part of Britain. After a terrible experience with the Wild Hunt, Hellboy goes to find out what is happening and why — and learns that a “queen of blood” has risen to take control the world’s fey creatures. To make matters worse, Hellboy has made a lot of fey creatures despise him over the years.
After his friend Alice is terribly injured fighting some undead monsters, Hellboy finds himself being called by a mythic, powerful woman who wants to reveal even more about his family tree background. Let’s just say that demons aren’t his only notorious family tree members. And now Hellboy must face a terrible choice — go down a path that ends in him destroying the world, or stand by while a name else does it for him.
Maybe it’s just my imagination, but it feels like Mike Mignola is starting to wrap up the Hellboy series. Just about everything about Hellboy has now been revealed, and he’s obviously heading to an epic world-changing clash with the “goddess of war.” And honestly, the whole “you’re destined to rule Hell!” “No I won’t!” thing is getting a small tired.
Fortunately, the rest of “Wild Hunt” is a pretty levelheaded graphic novel, with plenty of bloody fight scenes, steampunk demons, and a beefy dose of Celtic and Arthurian legends. Mignola inserts plenty of deliciously blunt one-liners for Hellboy (“Wait, are you p***ed that you didn’t get to inherit the SLUG HOUSE?!”) as well as some hints of a long-running conspiracy that has just ongoing to go. There’s more to come, and it ought to be excellent.
And Hellboy has some new personal struggles to overcome: his dark side is beginning to overwhelm him during fights, and he learns some shocking news about the human half of his heritage. Mignola also shows us what happened to a pair of people from a previous Hellboy tale — there’s Alice, a kind young woman who is determined to help him, and the Gruagach, a tragic creature who desperately hopes that the “queen of blood” can restore his power.
“Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt” really doesn’t have a lot about the Wild Hunt — it’s just the springboard for an exploration into the gruff demon’s history. And the tale isn’t over yet.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
My daughter and I have been Hellboy fanatics for years; but I reflect Mignola is finally running out of steam with his tales. Lacking giving away any spoilers, while this book ties up a lot of the loose ends that HB has been dragging behind him for years, and is clearly proposed to back HB into a confront where he will have no choice but to accept his destiny, the methods Mignola is using are just… tired. Anyone whose read Fantasy or comics for more than a few years will have encountered them all. (And if you haven’t seen them all before, please dig up and read Marvel’s ancient “Son of Satan” and “Ghostrider” comics from the 1970s.)
The upshot is that I still loved the tale a fantastic deal, and I’m looking forwards to the next BPRD in May, but I hope the next HB book manages to place a small more imagination into it.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
i just finished the wild hunt, and i like it. every hellboy book gets better and better in my eyes. well except the ones with the fleeting tales. while brilliant in their own right they don’t compare to the continuing tale. this does in a huge way and i am mad at myself for blowing through it in 2 days because now i will have to wait months if not a year until the next book comes out. here’s to hoping the new bprd and witchfinder can carry me til then.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5