Hellboy Volume 12: The Storm And The Fury

by Mike Mignola

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The End. Hmm. I think that I would recommend reading all of these collected trades in one go. This one just came out a few months ago, and as I look over the my 'read' comics shelf, I see that the last time I read a storyline TPB (as opposed to the last two, which were side story collections) was in May 2010. No wonder I'm super fuzzy on who all these characters were (who the frak was Alice?) and how it all fit together!

The series, in retrospect, made me think of Fringe's season 4 a little bit (in that they would air two episodes and then go on a 4-week hiatus, rendering it artificially jerky and poorly paced). It also reminded me of Supernatural, in that I spent the second half of the mythology-soaked series half wishing we could just go back to the simple demon hunting days. I wanted more of a nod back to the BPRD than we got in this final chapter.

Maybe now that the series is over, we'll get a nice Super Final Edition. I'd like to revisit it from the beginning.