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Another week, another New Comic Day! Here we go folks! Strap yourselves in... Gwenpool makes her first appearance out of the back of Howard The Duck.

And now we can see where she's been driving to. She has been announced as Associate Editor for Dark Horse Comics in Portland, alongside Bekah Caden and Rachel Roberts, while Judy Khuu has been hired as an Executive Assistant "We're extremely proud of and confident in our new staff members They each bring with them unique talents and new skill sets,"[...]

Byron Brewer caught up with Corinna S. Bechko to talk about the battle between horror icons Vampirella and the Aliens Xenomorphs. Cover art by Gabriel

In June next year, Dark Horse is reprinting the old DC Comics swords and sorcery series Fafhrd And The Gray Mauser by Dennis O'Neill, Howard Chaykin and Walter Simonson as Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser: Cloud Of Hate And Other Stories Dark Horse had previously reprinted the Mike Mignola issues, but now appear to be publishing[...]

In one week we see the launch of Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, Art Ops, Sklylanders Superchargers, Black Magick, Angela: Queen Of Hel, Doctor Strange, Howling Commandoes Of SHIELD, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Self Storage, Cyrus Perkins And  Haunted Taxi Cab, Webwitch, Coming Of Age, Henchgirl and Welcome To Showside. And in two weeks, Call Of Duty Black[...]

Here's the final cover to Barb Wire, issue 8 by Adam Hughes for Dark Horse Comics. And he's saying goodbye to her in style Well Barb Wire's style anyway All dressed up with an attitude, for February's final hoorah. Barb Wire #8 Chris Warner (W), Patrick Olliffe (P), and Adam Hughes (Cover) On sale Feb 3 Badass bounty hunter[...]

Dark Horse announced today that their latest foray into the xenomorphs universe would be with Brian Wood and Tristan Jones on a new series Aliens: Defiance. Aliens: Defiance follows struggling Colonial Marine rookie Zula Hendricks as she goes AWOL to protect Earth from an unknown alien species. Aliens: Defiance #1 (of 12) is in stores April 27, 2016. [...]

Lots of news came out of the Dark Horse: CLASSIFIED! Panel, but a highlight was definitely a original graphic novel series titled Buffy: The High School Years, executive produced by Joss Whedon The first volume will be written by Eisner Award–winning author Faith Erin Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl) with artist Yishan Li[...]

Their recent full graphic novel release Two Brothers from Dark Horse is an adaptation with very personal choices made from a major work of post-modern fiction in Brazil, and the graphic novel first appeared in Portuguese, but has now been translated by the brothers into English for the English-speaking world. The twins presented their own slideshow[...]

Seems another trip to Pandora is in the works, but this time in the four-colored pages of Dark Horse comics The publisher has announced a deal with 20th Century Fox and James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment to produce a series leading up to the three upcoming Avatar sequels. In a special prerecorded message, James Cameron revealed that[...]

Dark Horse has announced a deal with DreamWorks Animation to produce How To Train Your Dragon original graphic novels. Releasing in 2016, How to Train Your Dragon: The Serpent's Heir begins mere hours after the events of How to Train Your Dragon 2 as Hiccup and Toothless are thrust into their new roles as chief and[...]

At the Dark Horse Creators: Crafting the Original Story panel at New York Comic Con 2015, speakers included Donny Cates, Ethan Young, Van Jensen, Jonathan Case, Christopher Golden, and Greg Pak and things opened with a pretty solid opening round of Comic Con applause, hosted by Steve Sunu. Van Jensen was announced on his first creator[...]

At the Dark Horse Creators: Crafting the Original Story panel, Dark Horse announced a new Lone Wolf and Cub in 2016 in January, from Eric Heisserer, and Mighel Sepulveda. They also announced Mariko Tamaki on Tomb Raider in February 2016. Earlier in the week, the Sin City Curator's Collection was announced, and Steve Sunu clarified that it[...]

At the Dark Horse Creators: Crafting the Original Story panel at NYCC today, Van Jensen was announced on his first creator owned series in 4 years on Cryptocracy with Pete Woods on his first creator-owned series His idea was that the villain of many stories is a big, shadowy organization In this story, we try[...]

Mark Waid, writer of Justice Inc.: The Avenger #5, talks with writer Corinna Bechko about Aliens/Vampirella #2, both on sale now. Cover by Gabriel

In June of 2015, Dark Horse opened up their graphic novels catalog on ComiXology, and fans hoped the single-issue library wasn't far behind, especially given the mini-series and one-shot format of many seminal Dark Horse works. Today, ahead of New York Comic Con, they released the news that single issues will now be available globally from[...]

Starting off at Graphic Policy earlier today with a piece written by Janelle Asselin specifically dedicated to allegations of harassment against former (and at the time of events in question) Editor-in-Chief of Dark Horse, Scott Allie, today the big topic in the comics industry has been sexual harassment Asselin's article presented a clear statement on[...]

Clearly this is a passion project for Golden and his creative connection to the book really comes through in this discussion. Hannah Means-Shannon: Having been through the process of writing a prose horror novel before—Lord Baltimore—and then seeing him explode into comics form quite successfully, what did you learn about the process the first time around[...]

Dark Horse Comics will be at Booth #1636, and have an impressive array of exclusives, debuts and limited editions on offer for those lucky enough to get through those doors… And they start with their big hit of the summer, Fight Club 2! See more NYCC exclusives here. Dark Horse Comics will be at Booth #1636, and[...]

One of the latest collaborations between Dynamite and Dark Horse combines to horror icons with Aliens / Vampirella Byron Brewer talked with writer Corinna S Bechko about the series as it moves into the second half of its run. BYRON BREWER: Corinna, how have your feelings as a writer changed about these characters now that, with[...]

Another week, another stack of comic books in the comic bag. so what's worth an extra peek? Never has a hyena laughed quite so creepily as when it is

The point of a comic like Hellboy in Hell, particularly, is to give away very few potential spoilers, especially here in the second half of the “Hounds of

Back in 2014 just before ECCC, Dark Horse came across a company making leggings, but not just any leggings, super cool leggings, called Bombsheller They worked with the company over the next year to develop a line of Dark Horse comic themed leggings and debuted three styles at ECCC 2015 (how did we miss this[...]

Noting the recent change in management at Dark Horse Comics, AnimeNewsNetwork asked how this might affect Dark Horse's commitment to publishing Japanese titles in English. They got an answer regarding the new EIC Dave Marshall, via Editor Carol Horn who said: He was the editor of Dark Horse's original Avatar comic series The Promise and The Rift, as[...]

Inspired by the Danganronpa video game series and based on the anime of the same name, the Danganronpa manga, Dark Horse is thrilled to announce the publication of a four-volume series Each year, the elite Hope's Peak Academy selects only the most gifted and talented students to enroll…plus one ordinary student, chosen by lottery[...]

Art for the series will be by Patric Reynolds with colors by Dave Stewart. The cover to the trade paperback, revealed below, is by Dave Palumbo, who will also be the cover artist on the series. Dark Horse describe the series thus: The new series takes place prior to the events of the illustrated novel Joe Golem and[...]

On Friday, September 11th, Dark Horse announced the news via Entertainment Weekly that Scott Allie had stepped away from the role of Editor-in-Chief for the publisher, and that former Senior Editor Dave Marshall had been promoted into that role Allie's newly defined role at the company was described as Senior Executive Editor and some other[...]

Dark Horse's home show is Rose City Comic Con, and their involvement brings a lot to the show and gives fans plenty of opportunities to access creators This year they have a party, tons of signings, and some really interesting panels (props for thinking of that Twitter one! See below!) It's kind of like an[...]

Like, maybe you had a second brain located where the dinosaurs used to have theirs… Say, Do you miss Rob Liefeld on Cable and Deadpool? Don't worry, Bloodstrike has you covered…  While over at Dark Horse… guess what this comic is? No, it's the first issue of Mirror's Edge: Exordium but it does a good impersonation of a Buffy comic book[...]

The second issue of Red Sonja / Conan is due out this week from Dynamite and Dark Horse and we have some of the interior process art to share with you The issue is written by Victor Gischler and drawn by Roberto Castro. Red Sonja awakes bloodied and bruised to find she's missed the end of[...]