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John Allison and Max Sarin are creating a new comic book series together, to be published by Dark Horse Comics in April The Great British Bump Off is a "new Agatha Christie-style mystery set in the world of English competitive baking… Max Sarin folds their art into John Allison's scrumptious story, with Sammy Borras incorporating[...]

Bottom line: Carmilla is yet another strong entry in Dark Horse's catalog of vampire stories and shouldn't be overlooked. Carmilla Summary Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered, and no one,[...]

In 1989, co-founder and VP of Dark Horse Comics, Randy Stradley, with artist Phill Norwood, told a couple of short stories in Dark Horse Presents, the anthology comic from Dark Horse, with issue 34 featuring a short Aliens story, showing alien eggs being harvested and an Alien Queen being held hostage. Aliens in Dark Horse Presents[...]

Created by Jeff Lemire in 2007 but only published by Dark Horse Comics from 2016 , the series follows a group of superheroes trapped in a small town called Spiral City, unable to escape The series explores themes of identity, memory, and the role of superheroes in society, as the characters struggle to come to[...]

Dark Horse Comics brings Scott Snyder and Francis Manapul's Clear to print for the first time in their March 2023 solicits, as well as Jim Starlin and Rags Morales' Order & Outrage, and the Skull And Bones tie-in comic, by John Jackson Miller, James Mishler and Christian Rosado which was delayed but now rescheduled for[...]

A press release from Dark Horse today revealed that Yoe Books will launch at the publisher next year, with Harvey Award winning anthology BLAB! Volume 1 the first offering But when we reached out for comment, Craig Yoe told us: Yoe Books will be super busy doing comics-oriented books for the tremendous people at Dark Horse[...]

Coming next year from Dark Horse Comics and the Flux House imprint, writer Matt Kindt, artist Tyler Jenkins, and colorist Hilary Jenkins bring us Hairball, a supernatural thriller in which "a dysfunctional family's mounting problems may or may not be caused by an unlikely culprit: the family's cat" Is the cat the villain, or is[...]

Dark Horse Comics is to publish a new sci-fi comic book series in 2023, with Thanos creator Jim Starlin and Identity Crisis artist, Rags Morales, Order And Outrage #1, about resisting the forces of a ruthless totalitarian regime How topical. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:[...]

Just as Mark Millar is getting national press for saying that Chuck Dixon has been cancelled in mainstream comic books for being a conservative, Dark Horse is publishing a new Nexus graphic novel written by the conservative comic book creator Mike Baron, and apparently it's fine. Nexus: Nefarious is the latest edition of the Nexus series[...]

Where oh where is the Marble Queen? Last year, Bleeding Cool reported that Anna Kopp, best known as the creator of unofficial Minecraft graphic novels, such as the Smasher And Waffles series, had now sold her own original graphic novel, The Marble Queen, drawn by Gabrielle Kari, to Brett Israel at Dark Horse Anna Kopp[...]

Dark Horse Books present, Macbeth: A Tale of Horror, a new gothic adaptation by Stefano Ascari and Simone D'Armini. Simone D'Armini Draws Macbeth as a Horror Shakespeare Graphic Novel Italian comic book creators the pair, Simone D'Armini is best known to Little Bleeders asan artist on Elektra: Black, White & Blood at Marvel and Star Wars Adventures from IDW[...]

Dark Horse Comics has promoted Cara O'Neil to VP of Marketing, and its tie-in retail chain Things From Another World has promoted Jules Morales to Vice President of Retail Sales Cara O'Neil – Vice President of Marketing, Dark Horse Comics & Jules Morales – Vice President of Retail Operations, Things From Another World/ Dark Horse PR After[...]

Blue Book #1 indicates James Tynion IV bringing a bunch of his Substack books to Dark Horse Comics But also in the Dark Horse February 2023 solicitations are Where Monsters Lie #1 by Kyle Starks and Piotr Kowalski, the return of Masters of The Universe as Masterverse by Tim Seeley, Sergio Aragones and Eddie Nunez,  a[...]

On his Substack newsletter, James Tynion IV has just announced that his original Substack comic book titles won't be going to Image Comics along with Department Of Truth Wilf Fictions as you might have expected but will be joining his friend Scott Snyder at Dark Horse Comics This is a massive win for Dark Horse,[...]

I think we will relate to the crew of this ship, and enjoy their travels because it's not happening to us." Space Job #1 (of 4) will be available in comic shops from Dark Horse Comics on the 9th of February, 2023. The Orville Writer Launches Own Comic Set On The SS George H.W Bush   David A[...]

John Dunning and Ricardo Cabral have a new graphic novel for Thought Bubble, Wiper, coloured by Brad Simpson and lettered by Jim Campbell out next week from Dark Horse But John Dunning and Ricardo Cabral will have copies ahead of that this weekend in Harrogate. Lula Nomi is a Wiper–a private detective who guarantees complete discretion[...]

The Roadie #1 by Tim Seeley, Fran Galán, and El Torres is superficially similar to Paul Cornell and Tony Parker's 2015 comic This Damned Band, also published by Dark Horse It's worth delineating the two comics quickly: The Roadie #1 cover by Fran Galán In This Damned Band, a band playing around with Satanic imagery for the attention[...]

Dark Horse Comics is to publish a new graphic novel, The Rock Gods of Jackson Tennessee by Rafer Roberts, Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua and Crank! Rafer Roberts & Mike Norton Creates The Rock Gods Of Jackson Tennessee The heartwarming coming-of-age tale of four high school outcasts who start a band to gain fame and popularity…but have to[...]

Past Tense is a new graphic novel by Jason McNamara, Alberto Massaggia and Paul Little coming next year from Dark Horse Comics "Ashley is a tour guide at PAST TENSE, a company that sends camera drones into the past to view history's most depraved events When Ashley discovers Silas Green, an unknown serial killer working[...]

Return to the hulking barbarian and the diminutive rogue as they battle swordsmen, necromancers, and flagons of strong drink! The comics adaptation of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser returns to print in an omnibus format from Dark Horse Books, containing the series Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser:[...]

Comic book writer Brenden Fletcher, artist Mack Chater, colourist Rosh and letterer Nate Piekos are creating a new Stranger Things comic based on the Netflix TV series, that will star the character of Dr Brenner, to be published by Dark Horse Comics in January 2023 Stranger Things: The Many Ghosts of Dr Brenner #1 is described[...]

Sloane Leong is creating a sequel to Prism Stalker which was published in 2018 by Image Comics, as Prism Stalker: The Weeping Star, from Dark Horse In which Leong returns to the world of Eriatarka to bring you an all-new story featuring the character Vep in this follow-up to the series The planet Eriatarka grows[...]

For the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Rocky Horror Show, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing new comic books based on the Rocky Horror Picture Show film from 1975 based on the stage play musical from 1973 by Richard O'Brien This is just the kind of project that Dark Horse Comics may choose to announce[...]

It looks like to has the potential to join his Joker Batman cover as something so well conceived, and in the same ball park, that everyone will want to do their own version of it. Jock Has an Instant-Classic New Cover to Frank Miller's 300 at NYCC It's being used on a Dark Horse Comics 25th Anniversary[...]

Earlier this week, the news broke that Netflix would not be moving forward on Andrew Dabb's (Supernatural) Abubakr Ali (Power Book II: Ghost, Katy Keene)-starring live-action series adaptation of Matt Wagner's popular Dark Horse comic book series Grendel The following day, actor Andy Mientus (Larry Stohler) took to Instagram to reveal that apparently, an entire season[...]

Yesterday, we learned that Netflix would not be moving forward on Andrew Dabb's (Supernatural) Abubakr Ali (Power Book II: Ghost, Katy Keene)-starring live-action series adaptation of Matt Wagner's popular Dark Horse comic book series Grendel One of the two biggest questions coming out of the news was whether or not the show's producers could shop[...]

In September 2021, fans learned that the world of Matt Wagner's Hunter Rose would be coming to Netflix with an eight-episode live-action series adaptation of Wagner's popular Dark Horse comic book series Grendel With Abubakr Ali (Power Book II: Ghost, Katy Keene) set to star and Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) set to write, executive produce &[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool shared the news that Dark Horse Comics was dropping exclusive distribution to comic stores from Diamond Comic Distributors to Penguin Random House Publisher Services, as well as Diamond owner Steve Geppi's response which was, basically, "we'll miss the one percent that was Dark Horse." A number of comic book store owners and[...]

Bleeding Cool just ran the news that Dark Horse Comics was joining Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing, in going exclusive with Penguin Random House Publsihing Services for the direct market of comic book shops and bookstores, to begin in June 2023. Steve Geppi, founder of Diamond Comic Distributors and CEO of Geppi Family Enterprises, to whom[...]

Dark Horse Comics announced that it is joining Marvel and IDW in going exclusive with Penguin Random House Publisher Services in selling comic books in the direct market to comic book stores and bookstores And that this will be an exclusive worldwide multi-year agreement for the sales and distribution of Dark Horse's newly published and[...]