⭐3.5 rounded up because of the art.

I'm torn. On the one hand we get a lot more plot in this volume. On the other hand something about the way women were portrayed utterly annoyed me. Only Baba Yaga seemed to be fleshed out. The rest of them were just there because 'reasons'. Even the villain seems a bit too much of a mustache twirling person. Which is okay but the whole time we got these sketchy characters with motivations that seemed good to them. But now it's just 'I want to murder.' I don't know. I can't even pinpoint what my problem exactly is beyond "Men seem to be treated different in the story than women." Because everyone gets fucked over!

I'm still enjoying the story. And the art. But this volume I enjoyed a bit less. ( )

Rating Hellboy at this point feels like a pointless endeavor, especially as it becomes clear the time of fun, goofy things is just about over and we're into a much darker final act. So, I'll just say Duncan Fegredo's art is amazing here and puts most other collaborators on the Hellboy mythos to shame. ( )

The hellboy mythos continues as hellboy is tormented by his destiny and his role in the end of the world. Be wary you need to have volume 6 as this only has two thirds of the story arc which continues in the next volume. ( )