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jakekilroy's review
4.0
After decades of lead-up, hint following hint, painting how it'd all shake out, sometimes outright prophecies coming outta everyone from ghost to bird, the apocalypse is here. There's a lot of chaos, some of it rips and some of it slows, but at the core of all horror present, Hellboy once again agrees to sink into his destiny, this time for good. I thought the ending was so big, bold, and beautiful. It's so fitting that Hellboy could end with such a giant bonkers bang. It's a grandiose task to wrap up so many prevailing threads, but it sticks to the core and I believe it sticks the landing. I'm always impressed when an ending goes for the massive jugular of its own world, and here everything changes in a profoundly wild, bewilderingly scaled sweep — and it works. I was tremendously satisfied and simultaneously left wanting more and knowing I was set. This universe has been a blast, start to finish. Alas, all good things end, even the world as we know it (in apocalypse).
lacee's review
3.0
This is the most inconsistent, rushed storyline I have ever experienced. The stilted and incoherent dialogue from Messiah is back, along with the muddled art style (Mignola's panels are still great though). Most of this volume felt messy and pieced together, I'm not sure if I comprehended half of what they were trying to convey. I have more questions now. I don't really want them to be answered. I feel like they would figure out a way to f**k that up too.
The series has soured a lot of the Hellboy universe for me. I feel like we went through it all for...this. Don't get me wrong. I loved the actual ending, like the last few pages, well most of it.
I like the way Hellboy went out, Liz too (maybe) but Abe? Nah, that didn't sit right with me. He went through all that suffering and questioning just to become a carcass for eggs to spew out of. That was the WORST! and what the hell were the aliens? Were they aliens? I liked Rasputin's part for the end, though the Varvara stuff barely made sense.
This series has inadvertently exposed a lot of the flaws of the other B.P.R.D. series' as well. We still have some unresolved story lines, it's clear there was never a plan. This story was just made up as they went, it's all so clear now. I am still not over Kate's death. She should have got to see the end. Her death just never sat right with me. I swore we saw a picture of Kate (along with Hellboy, Devon, and Abe) at the final battle in Liz's vision of the future in volume 4 of Plague of Frogs. Did I just imagine seeing her? See, I keep asking questions when we really just need to put this story out of its misery. I'm going to end this by saying Kate, Abe, and Ashley deserved better, and so did Hellboy fans.
The series has soured a lot of the Hellboy universe for me. I feel like we went through it all for...this. Don't get me wrong. I loved the actual ending, like the last few pages, well most of it.
This series has inadvertently exposed a lot of the flaws of the other B.P.R.D. series' as well. We still have some unresolved story lines, it's clear there was never a plan. This story was just made up as they went, it's all so clear now. I am still not over Kate's death. She should have got to see the end. Her death just never sat right with me. I swore we saw a picture of Kate (along with Hellboy, Devon, and Abe) at the final battle in Liz's vision of the future in volume 4 of Plague of Frogs. Did I just imagine seeing her? See, I keep asking questions when we really just need to put this story out of its misery. I'm going to end this by saying Kate, Abe, and Ashley deserved better, and so did Hellboy fans.
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