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Photo Credit: Seth Kushner Last week saw the release of Brian Wood's latest comic series Rebels from Dark Horse, focusing on the events surrounding the Revolutionary War and the beginning stages of America as a country Wood is no stranger to historical fiction comics, with Northlanders pillaging pull lists every month when the series was coming[...]

Dark Horse is happy to announce that two-time recipient of the Seiun Award, Japan's highest honor for science fiction, Planetes, will be returning to bookshelves for the first time since 2005 Created by Makoto Yukimura, Planetes follows the space-garbage crew of aspiring explorer Hachimaki, mourning Yuri, and secretive Fee It takes place during the 2070s,[...]

Bleeding Cool welcomes back We Be Geeks, hosting a variety of guests and covering a wide range of geek topics. Download This week Mike and Marty talk a

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Former DC and Dark Horse writer/editor Barbara Randall Kesel addressed a packed room of anxious Wondercon attendees on how to defeat the dreaded creative block that writers and artists face, in her panel titled Where Do Ideals Come From? Banishing the Blank Page. There are going to be days[...]

On April 1st, Bleeding Cool told you about Dark Horse promotions, that will require retailers to send in stripped covers of Star Wars #1 – the comic that they can still order 5th prints of (only first prints will count.) In return for a number of stripped covers of the comic that Disney took from Dark[...]

Dark Horse Presents #9 lands on April 15th, bringing us a fresh dose of multi-genre goodness and more GROO It even has a Groo-licious cover this time I can't even believe the detail work on those spears! Contributors to DHP #9 include: Fred Van Lente, Alex de Campi, Victor Santos, Mike Grell, Brendan McCarthy, Mark Evanier,[...]

We told you about the new Barb Wire a few weeks ago… but here are ten new Dark Horse comics announced at ECCC for the summer of 2015… from Aaron Lopresti to Scott Kolins to Pat Oliffe... Barb Wire #1 Chris Warner (W) Patrick Olliffe (A) On Sale in July Nail-hard tough and drop-dead gorgeous, Barb Wire is the baddest[...]

It was the kids book created by Frank Miler and Geof Darrow, previously known for their anything-but-kids comic Hard Boiled.  A cartoon, plenty of statues and ten years later, Big Guy And Rusty The Bot Robot is returning from Dark Horse Comics, is getting recoloured by Dave Stewart and remastered for hardcover with plenty of sketches…[...]

Today, Dark Horse announce from Emerald City Comic Con a new creator-owned work from Aaron Lopresti for a September release date: Power Cubed It's a wild premise with some beautiful art that speaks to Lopresti's mulit-genre enthusiasms Technology, sci-fi, and Nazi scientists–yep, it's going to be quite a ride Lopresti has also revealed that Mark[...]

POP is  four issue miniseries from Dark Horse, now complete, that's releasing in trade edition this week and what a trade it is Seriously, the designer Dylan Todd might deserve some kind of award nomination for it It's the kind of sensibility and elaborate attention to detail you might expect from some kind of high-end[...]

Volume 1: Truth Dark Horse Books: Baltimore Volume 5: The Apostle and the Witch of Harju IDW Publishing: Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland # 4 Marvel Comics: Silk # 2 Image Comics: Invisible Republic # 1 Boom! Box: Giant Days # 1 Dark Horse Comics: EI8HT # 2 Also discussed: Ex Machina, Scott Pilgrim, Batgirl See you again next week! Find us on[...]

Follow our somewhat ingenuous city boy in strange backwaters where a bizarre ritualistic culture exists with its own rules and predations. Dark Horse describe Issue #2 thus: A town hidden in the dark woods holds frightening secrets and even more frightening residents! The one "gentleman" in a town full of subhumans offers some answers, but no safety,[...]

It's so out there in concept and execution that it reminds me of some of Image Comics' strangest produce, and yet it's dark enough and somehow alternative enough that it does feel right as a Dark Horse book. The first issue took us inside the life of a character who may or may not be a[...]

This Week's Reviews: Rebels #1 Surface #1 Hellbreak #1 Howard the Duck #1 Advance Review: Rebels #1 (Dark Horse, releasing April 8th) By Bart Bishop Too often the Founding Fathers are viewed as saints, but they were men before they made history This is even more true of the militia men that were in the mud and blood in[...]

Now it's time for more! Dark Horse Comics and PopCap Games have announced, Bully for You, a new ongoing Plants vs Zombies miniseries. The series will be written by Eisner Award–winning writer Paul Tobin, with art by Ron Chan The story will focus on characters, Nate, Patrice, and Crazy Dave as they investigate a strange college[...]

Issue #8 is landing on March 25th in digital format before a larger print collection later in 2015. Dark Horse describe Issue #8 thus: Tensions flare as the Sundowners find themselves in the midst of a Detroit gang war! Now trapped between drug dealers, a twisted creep in a Santa Claus suit, and a wishing well to[...]

Written by Duffy Boudreau, with art by Douglas Franchin and Rob Lean, and cover art by Jean-Sebastien Rossbach, Halo: Escalation is reaching its 16th issue on March 25th, and true to the arc's title, things are getting pretty explosive. I have to say, that cover art is just stunning, and an example of why the Halo[...]

Intrigue, secret agents, monsters, and more! This June, Drew Edward Johnson (Wonder Woman) will team up with Dark Horse Comics to make his creator-owned debut of Midnight Society: The Black Lake The story will focus on secret agent Matilda Finn, one of England's greatest adventurers, who made a choice forty years prior that would haunt[...]

Dark Horse caused quite a stir of amusement at the Comics PRO Annual Meeting in Portland in February, as well as making a strong statement about their current and upcoming books, and Editor-in-Chief Scott Allie joins us here today for a tour through the titles that were making the headlines at the show, as well[...]

At the Instore Comic Convention Kickoff, live streaming to thirty-six comic stores, saw Dark Horse's Randy Stradley asked about the future of the Dark Horse comic book series Resident Alien. He said, to the nervous laughter of some of his fellow employees at the publisher, and saying he was not sure whether he was allowed to[...]

Well played Mike Huddleston! Writer David Lapham is also giving us a remarkable sweep of history here to enrich the story. Here's our especially creepy preview of The Night Eternal #7 in The Strain series from Dark Horse: The Strain: The Night Eternal #7 arrives in shops on March 18th, and is[...]

And the only way to see it, is go to one of those stores. Starting at Noon ET, The In-Store Convention Kickoff will see a stream of panels flow, a new panel every hour, Valiant, Marvel, IDW, Image,  Boom, DC and Dark Horse, all with executives, editors and comic creators, and then  at 7pm, special spots[...]

An occasional look at lateness, comics that are on the schedule to be published but maybe a little later than we might have thought... and when we might

Almost as if there's a sequel on the way…  And Dark Horse's Ei8ht #1 also gets a second printing… The Joe Books translation of the Italian comic book adaptation of Disney's Frozen – as opposed to their cinecomic adaptation of the movie – can gone to a second print Almost as if there's a sequel on the[...]

The vigilante comic X, from Dark Horse, is still doing what it does best, being relentlessly hard-boiled! Issue #23 is coming up March 11th and promises a city become an "insane asylum", a new ravaging drug that's highly addictive and a dark nemesis from X's past of the female variety You just can't help but[...]

So when I discovered he was working on a new five-part series for Dark Horse Comics called EI8HT, with Supergirl writer Mike Johnson co-scripting and a plot that seems to fuse elements of post-apocalyptic fiction like Planet of the Apes (sans Apes, for the moment at least) with the likes of Memento and Looper, I[...]

Dark Horse will be releasing a graphic novel this coming Fall from Eisner Award winner, Jonathan Case, entitled The New Deal Set in the 1930s and the Depression era of New York City, Case will explore class misconceptions, racial tension, and more through the eyes of a bellhop and a maid in the Waldorf Astoria. Case[...]

Dynamite Entertainment and Dark Horse Comics will follow up their Conan / Red Sonja crossover series with a new one, Red Sonja / Conan by writer Victor Gischler The first issue of the series will feature covers by Alex Ross, Ed Benes and Robert Castro. In Red Sonja / Conan, the crimson-tressed warrior and Hyborian berserker[...]

We've run a few break out pieces for the new Hellboy comic and Chuck Palahniuk talking Fight Club 2, but Dark Horse had plenty to discuss in their ComicsPRO presentation to comic book retailers… Dark Horse was keen to show off the The Art Of He Man and talked about strong orderdahead of its April launch, and tied the[...]

  Chuck Palahniuk turned up at the ComicsPRO event for comic book retailers, for the Dark Horse Comics presentation He was there to drum up support and excitement for the Fight Club 2 sequel comic book he has been writing But he needed a hand. Signed hands, handed out to every retailer… Chuck told the crowd that Fight Club is unapologetically[...]