Pilot: Hellboy: The Storm

[Stephanie]

Mike Mignola reunites with artist Duncan Fegredo, together closing their saga with a final, three-issue arc called The Storm. After Darkness Calls and The Wild Hunt, Hellboy finds himself standing thick in England's darkest secrets, including that of his own lineage. The days of hacking through demons and tallying mythologies could be ending fast for Hellboy, now inheritor of the European country's ancestral throne. A bigger evil looms on the horizon as the Queen of Blood's army threatens Hellboy's rise as king. Armored bodies of the "noble dead" are stirring in their graves, walking familiar soil once more.

A priest and old friend of Hellboy's, bonded over a headless nun years past, informs the authorities, the red-tailed investigator, and his companion Alice of a curious occurrence: The remains of William Harvey and Peter Greene, who accompanied Henry V at Agincourt, and John Symons, First Earl of Bideford, have disappeared from their tombs, leaving only the rumored traitor Sir Edmund Dawes at peace in the church. Although Hellboy refuses to share his suspicions with even his religious acquaintance, he and Alice know a sinister power is mounting, and before long those dreaded forces oppose their path, endangering both lives.

This beginning issue marks one of potential for Hellboy's character, who swears he's putting his drinking gloom behind him. Mignola is shuffling the cards for his destined hero, and the omens are stacking up like dead witches. Fans will definitely want to keep reading, and the book's tag-team are making sure Hellboy's latest adventure rides high on excitement and bone-crunching punches from the right hand of doom.

Readers can find The Storm #1 online here, at the Impulse Creations shop.