Cole Haddon's Inspector Thomas Adye Returns to Battle More Monsters and Mayhem in "The Strange Case of the Disappearing Man" Victorian horror fans, rejoice! Dark Horse is delighted to announce the follow-up to 2011’s cult classic The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, with The Strange Case of the Disappearing Man. Mr. Hyde’s Cole Haddon brings fans even more Thomas Adye adventures, while Sebastián Cabrol (Thief: Tales from the City, Caliban) lends his beautiful art to the story, and Hernán Cabrera (Caliban) brings the art to life with his gorgeously grotesque color palette. The Strange Case of the Disappearing Man finds Inspector Thomas Adye of Scotland Yard struggling to return to normalcy after his run-in with...
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An Introspective look at Horror by Cole Haddon “More blood,” I typed. “Garish, bright red blood.” This was an e-mail to Jim Campbell, the colorist who helped artist M. S. Corley and me bring my first comic book, The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, to life. “Check out these stills,” I told him, attaching images from Hammer Films’ The Curse of Frankenstein to the e-mail. “I want our book to look like that.” The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde began as a homage to Hammer horror, in fact, but quickly grew into a love song to the whole of the gothic horror I loved when I was young—from silent horror movies, to Universal’s monster movies and producer Val...
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