Just because Hellboy wasn’t badass enough as is, he’s now getting a mecha upgrade: creator Mike Mignola is reuniting with artist Duncan Fegredo for Giant Robot Hellboy, a three-issue mini-series where – you guessed it – our favourite red boy is a robot. The first issue will drop from Dark Horse Comics in October, breaks THR.

“Giant Robot Hellboy is my very obvious nod to all those Japanese giant monster movies…which I actually have no particular love for,” Mignola said in a statement. “I had the idea for this one a long time ago but figured it was too silly to actually do,” the writer continues. “Then the pandemic came along and I started to do all those sketches I would post online. I had never given a serious thought to what a giant robot Hellboy would look like but I knocked out a few sketches and I liked them. The thing started to seem like something that could actually be done.”

Plot details are being kept sparse, but we do now that GRH will see Hellboy kidnapped and hooked up to a massive mecha-Hellboy for a mission on a mysterious, faraway island.

Check out the covers for GRH issue no. 1 below: