Dark Horse Comics News

Booker Award-Winning Writer Margaret Atwood Announces Her First Graphic Novel

Margaret Atwood, the Booker Award-winning author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Heart Goes Last will be releasing her first graphic novel ever. Dark Horse Comics will be publishing Angel Catbird, three graphic novels intended for all-ages. Angel Catbird is described by acquiring editor Daniel Chabon as “a strange mix of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Grant Morrison and Chas Truog’s Animal Man, and Ryan North and Erica Henderson’s Squirrel Girl… Angel Catbird is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired story. And the only other thing I can tell you at this early date is to expect a lot of cat puns.”

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Dark Horse Announces 12 Creator-Owned Series

Twelve days in a row, Dark Horse Comics debuted 12 new series via various media partners. These series will premiere in late 2014 and throughout 2015. Here is a quick peak at each of them.

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Dark Horse Brings Danganronpa Manga to the West

Danganronpa is a critically acclaimed video game series and anime. Did you enjoy Battle Royale? Want to add in a little Phoenix Wright? Then you’ll probably enjoy Danganronpa. Now, Dark Horse Comics has licensed the Danganronpa manga and is bringing it to the US.

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Dark Horse to Publish The Secret Loves of Geek Girls Anthology

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is an anthology series featuring a mixture of prose and comics. These stories feature love, dating and sex. Over 50 creators came together to write and/or illustrate for this anthology, including Booker Award–winning novelist Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (A-Force) and Marjorie Liu (Astonishing X-Men, Monstress).

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First Look: Angel & Faith Season 10 #1

This October is going to be Father's Day - not the holiday (for a heads up that's June 21st) but a new comic book! The story revolves around former mob enforcer Silas who killed people under the name the Eastside Butcher. It's been twenty years since he left this life and his family. Now, everything has been turned upside down when his daughter tracks him down and accidentally leads the mob right to him.

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First Look at Colder: Bad Seed #1

At San Diego International Comic Con it was announced that there were twelve new series coming out from Dark Horse Comics. Colder: The Bad Seed #1 is one of those new comics and a preview is now available.

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First Look: Father's Day #1

First Look: Lady Killer #1

Lady Killer was one of the twelve creator owned series Dark Horse Comics announced they would be launching at SDCC. In this darkly humorous mini-series, seemingly mild-mannered homemaker Josie Schuller is not everything she appears to be. This loving wife and mother of the year is also an assassin. Murder and intrigue are combined with the idyllic domesticity of the 60s to create some gut-busting comedy… literally!

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First Look at Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy

The Terminator series is a favorite of many sci-fi fans and while I’ve never jumped on the Terminator bandwagon I am curious about Dark Horse Comics upcoming comic book mini-series Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy. Written by Dan Jolley (Bloodhound, Prototype 2) with pencils by Jamal Igle (Supergirl, Molly Danger) and inks by Ray Snyder (Wonder Woman, Supergirl).

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First Look at Usagi Yojimbo: Senso #1

This latest tale of the rabbit samurai Miyamoto Usagi marks his 30th anniversary. Set 20 years in the future, Usagi is a general of Lord Noriyuki fighting against Lord Hikiji. But, in a science-fiction twist, a rocket crashes to earth and a new enemy emerges. This comic will reveal the final fates of all the Usagi characters and is written and illustrated by Usagi’s creator Stan Sakai.

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First Look: Veil #1

Eisner winner Greg Rucka (Lazarus, 52) has created a new horror mini-series for Dark Horse Comics: Veil. In an abandoned subway station a woman wakes up covered in rats (and nothing else) with no memory of how she got there. Then when some guys jump her they meet their own end instead. The artwork for this title is done by Cthulhu artist Toni Fejzula. See a preview for Veil #1 and read my first impressions below.

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First Look: Witcher #1

Yes, The Witcher, the game that won over 250 awards and sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide, is going to become a comic book. However, before the video game The Witcher was based on novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski and that is what this comic is based on.

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Mulan Meets Cyberpunk

Mulan meets cyberpunk. Hopefully she still has Eddie Murphy around to guide her, because she may just need all the help she can get! You heard that right, creator Robert Alter has decided to continue the legend of Mulan with a science-fiction twist. Hold on to your jet boots!

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Prototype Midquel Comic Book

Comic book and video game publisher Radical Entertainment will be teaming up with Dark Horse Comics to create a three-story comic book series of the Prototype mythos occurring between Prototype and Prototype 2 (one of the most anticipated open-world/action games this year slated for an April 2012 release).

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SDCC 2015: Greg Pak Presents Magic, Racism and Westerns in Kingsway West

The award-winning writer Greg Pak (Incredible Hulk, Incredible Hercules, Action Comics) is penning his first original mini-series for Dark Horse Comics. His new series, Kingsway West, will be a blend of the American Old West, magic, monsters and racist vigilantes. Pak also developed a pre-order system for the mini-series that Dark Horse is calling “revolutionary.”

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