This might seem kinda perverted...
Does anyone else think the Queen of Blood looks hot? Because I personally do… I think I have my new fetish locked down.
No, I'm joking… Kind of.
Let me put this hypothetical question to you: If it's drawn on paper and looks hot but would be profoundly horrifying in real life does that make it a fetish?
I don't think it does.
This was a weird issue. If you're expecting closure you might as well wash half a bottle of sleeping pills with two fingers of vodka because you're going to be disappointed.
Hellboy discovers that he accidentally killed during his fight with Astaroth.
While kneeling beside her bed he is visited by the ghost of a Russian witch who readers will recognize from the Darkness Calls miniseries. During their conversation a distraught Hellboy reveals the reasons why he didn't take the sword he was offered and also discusses his fears of becoming the thing he was meant to be, Anung Un Rama. The ghost explains to Hellboy that instead of listening to all the negative opinions about his nature he should focus on . She believed that Hellboy was more than the sum of his parts, more than his right hand, and that his relationship to King Arthur and his birthright as the King of Britain proves that. In an eerie scene we see Hellboy accept his hidden heritage and he pulls Excalibur from its stone. When he does this he blinks from one reality to another and finds himself transported from Morgan La Fey's castle to standing on a moor during the day with standing next to him, alive and well.
I felt that was a little too jarring… And a little too convenient… But whatever.
From there we see the Queen of Blood looking all hot and we also see the crown she will wear when she heads into battle… And that's how it ended.
Overall this was a good issue. Like I mentioned above there is no closure so if you were expecting some I'd imagine you're disappointed.
But what we DO have here is yet another compelling layer wrapped up and added to Hellboy's mythology in effect making his character and his future much more complex then before this miniseries started.
I suddenly feel like the stakes are higher than they've ever been for Hellboy and his universe. Everything in this book feels BIG. I feel dwarfed by the size of the concepts and the spectrum of this story line.
I cannot wait for the next Hellboy miniseries, The Storm, nor can I wait for the next BPRD series The King of Fear.
It's seriously an incredible time to be a Hellboy fan.
