Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat Review Roundup

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Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat Review Roundup

12/08/2023 9:00am

Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat by Mike Mignola, Matt Smith, and Chris O'Halloran is now available in comic shops! See what people are saying:

"Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat is a delightfully mysterious and fun one-shot entry into the Hellboy mythos. Matt Smith’s writing and visual storytelling sensibilities capture everything great about Mignolaverse comics, while maintaining his own style while playing in this well-established universe. Chris O’Halloran’s color art perfects the atmosphere and pulls readers in effortlessly to this paranormal holiday mystery."-Monkeys Fighting Robots

"Excellent story that mixes horror, suspense and action in the middle of the Christmas season in the best Hellboy style."-Un Comic Mas

"A fine holiday tale to exchange with friends and start your own Icelandic holiday book swap"-Multiversity Comics

"The Hellboy winter specials have been some of the best Christmas comics on the stands for the holidays for quite some time now. They do the season justice while also being stories that deepen Hellboy’s lore by not settling on throwaway tales. The Yule Cat is no exception, and it’ll warm your heart just as much as it’ll make you clutch it for fear that a giant cat will come eat you because you didn’t buy new clothes for Christmas."-Comics Beat

“Smith’s art is as engaging and thrilling as the story.”-Super Powered Fancast

“The Yule Cat feels like some of the best Hellboy yarns in that, even when there are no supernatural beasts on the page, you feel the specter of dread that has to be extinguished. The Yule Cat (and what follows—no spoilers) produces a genuinely unsettling tone; you may never look at your house cat the same.”-Freak Sugar

"In twenty two pages, the blink of an eye in the four colour realm, Matt Smith manages to tell a ripping yarn that incorporates the aforementioned legend, Norse mythology and a battle of epic proportions with the denizens of the Icelandic wastes who are, to this day, pacified by, and kept alive in the minds of, the people of Iceland. Smith’s art reflects his epic, concise and direct storytelling, dialogue and characterisation perfectly, and he is responsible for bringing to life, and unleashing on the world, a Hellboy one shot that is destined to take its place in the Halls of Valhalla, where the mightiest tales of Big Red live forever. Það er jólakraftaverk…”-MASS MOVEMENT

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