Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is a fitting swan song for Lance Reddick. The late actor embraces the role of reluctant, sardonic hero with aplomb – his gravely, rhythmic cadence the perfect point of entry to a battle that lurks in the Wyrd, a pocket dimension spewing forth from the spiraling corridors of The Butterfly House. Hellboy isn’t one to waste words, so every spoken syllable is there to punctuate a point; a rhetorical retort towards some twisted monstrosity, or curiously oblique commentary with other agents of the B.P.R.D. It’s truly a shame that circumstances have resulted in this collaboration being a one-shot, rather than the start of something special.
