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A review by ridanwise
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola
5.0
This is the pinnacle of Hellboy, and, as such, the culmination of several plot threads left until then unsolved. I feel conflicted. It's obvious Mignola plotted the run in advance, but the previous volumes somewhat suffer because of it with poorly connected, one-off stories whose importance to the overall plot felt ambiguous at best.
I don't even think it's the fault of the writer, but rather of the collected medium in which the story is presented. Hellboy works great as a folk/fairy tale short format (which can be imitated perfectly through the serialized nature of comics). Binding them together, however, heightens the contrast among them, seeming like a story that wants to be cohesive, but is ultimately poorly tied together.
The Wild Hunt transcends--it is a knot tightly fastened.
I don't even think it's the fault of the writer, but rather of the collected medium in which the story is presented. Hellboy works great as a folk/fairy tale short format (which can be imitated perfectly through the serialized nature of comics). Binding them together, however, heightens the contrast among them, seeming like a story that wants to be cohesive, but is ultimately poorly tied together.
The Wild Hunt transcends--it is a knot tightly fastened.