Mike Mignola is returning to Hellboy in Hell for the first time in a decade with Hellboy in Hell: Nothing But Blood, a new two-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries that launched October 7, 2026.
The story reunites Mignola with one of the most acclaimed stretches of the entire Hellboy Universe, teaming him with French artist Cyrille Pomès for Pomès' first-ever Hellboy Universe work.
Set in the immediate aftermath of Satan's death and the fall of Pandemonium, Nothing But Blood drops Hellboy into a fresh uprising among Hell's ruling demons, and nothing about it is as simple as it first looks.
Here is everything confirmed so far about the creative team, the plot, the release schedule, and where this miniseries actually sits inside Mignola's original Hellboy in Hell saga.
Mignola writes the story himself, while Cyrille Pomès, known for Moon and 6,000 Miles to Freedom, handles both art and lettering duties across both issues.
Longtime Mignola collaborator Dave Stewart returns on colors, keeping the book's palette consistent with the look readers associate with the original Hellboy in Hell run from 2012 to 2016.
The official Dark Horse solicitation places the story after the death of Satan and the fall of Pandemonium in Hellboy in Hell #8, during a violent uprising against Hell's remaining ruling demons.
Hellboy encounters a young woman being chased by winged creatures in the middle of that uprising and steps in to help her, though Dark Horse is explicit that nothing and no one in this story are quite what they seem.
Issue #1 arrived October 7, 2026, with issue #2 following on November 18, 2026, closing out the miniseries as confirmed on comic shop preorder listings.
Retailer solicitation data lists issue #2's final preorder cutoff as October 12, 2026, so collectors chasing guaranteed day-one copies need to lock that in early, and should have a current-age comic bag and backing board ready before either issue even ships.
Pomès has described discovering Mignola's work as a teenager and later meeting him in Los Angeles, where Mignola invited him to take on an unfinished idea for a story set in Hell.
A new artist stepping into Hellboy in Hell for the first time since the saga wrapped is a meaningful handoff, and Nothing But Blood is the real test of how that transition reads on the page.
Hellboy in Hell originally ran ten issues between 2012 and 2016, and Nothing But Blood is explicitly framed as happening after issue #8, The Hounds of Pluto Part Two, rather than as a disconnected side story.
That placement means it functions as a genuine continuation of a specific, late moment in the original saga rather than a vague, standalone revisit of Hell as a setting.
Mignola is not stopping at one new Hellboy in Hell story this year. Hellboy in Hell: Parade of Horrors launches December 16, 2026 with artist Márk László, picking up after Nothing But Blood's events.
Together, the two miniseries mark the first real expansion of Mignola's Hell since 2016, with two different artists each taking on a distinct piece of previously unseen territory in the same afterlife.
A two-issue return from a creator of Mignola's stature after a decade away tends to sell through direct market allocations quickly, especially with a hard, confirmed preorder cutoff on issue #2.
Retailers ordering a finite, non-ongoing miniseries also tend to order more conservatively than they would for an open-ended monthly, which raises the odds of a tight shelf window once both issues are actually out.
Local comic shops set their initial order quantities for a book like this well before release, basing them on customer preorder counts rather than any guaranteed sell-through data from a comparable recent title.
A decade-long gap in new Hellboy in Hell material makes early demand genuinely harder for retailers to forecast than a book with recent sales history to lean on, which is one more reason a locked-in preorder beats hoping shelf copies are still sitting there in week two.
October 7, 2026.
November 18, 2026.
Cyrille Pomès, in his Hellboy Universe debut, with colors by Dave Stewart.
After the death of Satan and the fall of Pandemonium in Hellboy in Hell #8.
Nothing But Blood is a tight two-issue story with a hard close-out date, so the smartest move is locking in both issues now rather than hunting down a sold-through first printing later.
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