BPRD: The Tale of Daryl

[espanolbot]

The team are talking about ghost stories from their pasts, and Abe Sapien brings this one up from the days when it was primarily him and Hellboy having to take care of random supernatural junk, before the Lovecraftian frog people started to hog the scene.

They were up in Canada, where some local police had called them in to investigate some weird sightings around a long abandoned house on the edge of a town, of a big, fast moving white shape. HB identifies some gloop on the ground as being vomit, which appears to be most of a small deer. He asks about the house the Thing has been lurking around...















The only alternative that the BPRD have avaliable is to lock up Daryl so that he doesn't eventually eat anyone/pass on the curse to someone else, which naturely isn't something he takes well. To try and take the edge off of it though, HB gives him a photograph of him and his family so that he'd have something to help him remember who he used to be, and hopefully prevent the eventually degeneration into mindless monster which normally happens to Wendigos.

Don't worry though, Daryl does get free of the curse... eventually.

Comments

[punchdrunkard]

Probably one of my favourite storylines in BPRD, even the eventually bit. Though that also marked the end of another storyline I liked... (;__________;)

[hybrid2]

I'm gona need a list of trades I need to buy.

[espanolbot]

Well this one is from Vol. 6, the Universial Machine, but really there are references in BPRD to things that happen throughout Hellboy too. So really you'd have to buy both series, as well as the Witchfinder and Lobster Johnson spin-offs. ^^;

[q99]

Poor Daryl.


I love this stuff in BRPD. I kinda miss that we don't get to see much of it as-of Hell on Earth.

[espanolbot]

Ah, they seem to be having the occasional trade of flashback stories, like one where Liz goes to an orphanage that's near some woods that are haunted by the ghost of a woman apparently killed due to the Salem thing.

[damar148]

I really wish the comic just kept to these kind of stories, instead of constantly prolonging the Frogs/Lovecraft/End of the World stuff.