Comments on: Review: Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #1 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/8771.htm/ We know you love comics. We do, too. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:52:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Cory http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/8771.htm/#comment-90823 Cory Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:48:27 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/?p=8771#comment-90823 I don't know. This issue feels like the first issue of the last few Hellboy miniseries (The Crooked Man nothwithstanding). It's all getting far too familiar. Hellboy's story has been dragging on since the mid-1990's. I think Mignola needs to inject something shockingly new into his franchise. He should probably amplify his Pulp fiction tendencies (Lobster Johnson = The Spider) (He should create a Doc Savage analog as well). Remember those bizarre fake ads in the Lobster Johnson miniseries? He should inject bizarre ideas like that into Hellboy. I don’t know. This issue feels like the first issue of the last few Hellboy miniseries (The Crooked Man nothwithstanding). It’s all getting far too familiar. Hellboy’s story has been dragging on since the mid-1990’s. I think Mignola needs to inject something shockingly new into his franchise. He should probably amplify his Pulp fiction tendencies (Lobster Johnson = The Spider) (He should create a Doc Savage analog as well). Remember those bizarre fake ads in the Lobster Johnson miniseries? He should inject bizarre ideas like that into Hellboy.

]]> By: JB http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/8771.htm/#comment-90653 JB Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:57:35 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/?p=8771#comment-90653 I was looking forward to this one ; I've always been a fan of Mignola's Daoine Sidhe, ever since the Corpse, and Darkness Calls had completely blown me away. Needless to say, the idea of the fair folk going at war was a "Oh snap !" moment. It's amazing how Mignola can manage his incredibly rich and complex universe : he keeps bringing back background characters, that you'd never have suspected would return. Gruagach's been around for a very long time, and I can clearly remember the Osiris Society manipulating and observing Hellboy in the Nature of the Beast. But Alice ? Who on earth is this girl ? With the Warning finished and the Black Godess upcoming on the BPRD side, this looks like a storm for the Hellboy universe. Not only are the fair flok gathering for war, but so are the giants, and more, much more than that, Hellboy is talking to a bird ! That bird...this mysterious figure that popped up now and again, in key moments (in the Nature of the Beast, for instance) just to tweet...Gruagach had spoken to it in Darkness Calls, delivering a warning to its mistress. At the time, I had assumed it was Baba Yaga, but I should have known better. Now we finally get to know what that bird is and who it serves... I don't think the Queen of Blood is Hellboy's mother ; we've seen the big guy's mama in the Chained Coffin, and the poor old lady was on a one-way ticket from old-age death to Hell with Red's demon daddy, so...she seemed like an "ordinary" witch, nothing like the incredibly old and supernatural thing in that box. Anyway, great review, can't wait for the rest. Viva the Kid from Hell ! Ah, and PS : I love Hellboy's newfound habit to sleep in dead people's houses...with their invitation nonetheless ! It's three times now, after the sailors on the Island, and Harry Middleton, now it's the Capobianco sister. I wonder if it's going to be significant in the plot, or if it's just a cool detail. Either way, I love it. PPS, while we're at it : I remember who Alice is, now, after some googling helped my memory. Alice Monaghan, the baby from the Corpse, that had been taken by the Sidhe and switched with Gruagach the Changeling. Hellboy did save her from the fairy, but if she's at the Dagda's funeral, it means that kidnapping left some mark on her...and from the looks of it, she's going to play a part in the following issues. Looking forward to that and to all the rest ! I was looking forward to this one ; I’ve always been a fan of Mignola’s Daoine Sidhe, ever since the Corpse, and Darkness Calls had completely blown me away. Needless to say, the idea of the fair folk going at war was a “Oh snap !” moment.

It’s amazing how Mignola can manage his incredibly rich and complex universe : he keeps bringing back background characters, that you’d never have suspected would return. Gruagach’s been around for a very long time, and I can clearly remember the Osiris Society manipulating and observing Hellboy in the Nature of the Beast. But Alice ? Who on earth is this girl ?

With the Warning finished and the Black Godess upcoming on the BPRD side, this looks like a storm for the Hellboy universe. Not only are the fair flok gathering for war, but so are the giants, and more, much more than that, Hellboy is talking to a bird ! That bird…this mysterious figure that popped up now and again, in key moments (in the Nature of the Beast, for instance) just to tweet…Gruagach had spoken to it in Darkness Calls, delivering a warning to its mistress. At the time, I had assumed it was Baba Yaga, but I should have known better. Now we finally get to know what that bird is and who it serves…

I don’t think the Queen of Blood is Hellboy’s mother ; we’ve seen the big guy’s mama in the Chained Coffin, and the poor old lady was on a one-way ticket from old-age death to Hell with Red’s demon daddy, so…she seemed like an “ordinary” witch, nothing like the incredibly old and supernatural thing in that box.

Anyway, great review, can’t wait for the rest. Viva the Kid from Hell !

Ah, and PS : I love Hellboy’s newfound habit to sleep in dead people’s houses…with their invitation nonetheless ! It’s three times now, after the sailors on the Island, and Harry Middleton, now it’s the Capobianco sister. I wonder if it’s going to be significant in the plot, or if it’s just a cool detail. Either way, I love it.

PPS, while we’re at it : I remember who Alice is, now, after some googling helped my memory. Alice Monaghan, the baby from the Corpse, that had been taken by the Sidhe and switched with Gruagach the Changeling. Hellboy did save her from the fairy, but if she’s at the Dagda’s funeral, it means that kidnapping left some mark on her…and from the looks of it, she’s going to play a part in the following issues. Looking forward to that and to all the rest !

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