Hellboy: The Wild Hunt
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Creative team | |
| Created by | Mike Mignola |
| Written by | Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) | Duncan Fegredo |
| Letterer(s) | Clem Robins |
| Colorist(s) | Dave Stewart |
| Editor(s) | Scott Allie |
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Hellboy: The Wild Hunt is the ninth collected edition in Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic book series, the second of three connected story arcs written by Mignola and illustrated by Duncan Fegredo. Its eight chapters, collected in March 2010, were originally released from December 2008 through November 2009 as issues 1-8 of the Hellboy: The Wild Hunt limited series, also numbered (on the inside front cover) as issues 37 through 44 of the continuing Hellboy series. The storyline delves into Irish and Arthurian legend, reprising several characters first introduced in Hellboy short story "The Corpse". As with Hellboy stories generally, it was published by Dark Horse Comics.
Asleep in the home of deceased friends in Italy, a dreaming Hellboy visits the funeral of the Dagda, king of the Irish fairies, attended by several Tuatha de Danaan and also by Alice Monaghan, the baby he saved from the fairy changeling The Gruagach in the Hellboy short story "The Corpse". Hellboy receives an invitation from British noblemen gathered to hunt giants, who call themselves "The Wild Hunt" after the legend of Herne the Hunter. Meanwhile, at the site of the Dagda's murder, a restless fairy army awaits the resurrection of the 'Queen of Blood' who, the vengeful Gruagach argues, will soon rise to lead them in a war against Hellboy and humankind. Having joined the Wild Hunt, Hellboy and companions ride to a bridge where they will ambush a party of giants, but his fellow huntsmen betray and attack him, declaring that "the devil shall never sit on the throne of England."
While unconscious, Hellboy finds himself in the tomb of King Arthur, before awaking to find the hunting party slaughtered by the giants they had been hoping to ambush. The little bird from Hellboy's dream makes Hellboy invisible but Hellboy seeks out the giants, and shedding his invisibility, attacks them. Meanwhile, the arch-devil Astaroth (last seen in Box Full of Evil) appears to the Gruagach, hears his story, and gives him a small chalice filled with the blood of an entire English village Astaroth has just killed. The Gruagach pours it into the crate containing the remains of the Queen of Blood, and she rises from it.
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