Dark Horse Comics’ New York Comic Con Announcements 2010
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja comes to Dark Horse with Night Powers
On sale: April 2011
This volume collects “Monster Mart,” “Death Volley,” and “Doc Gets Rad” (all previously published at drmcninja.com), along with the new, exclusive-to-print story “Winter Wonderdome.”
What’s better than an evil unicorn motorcycle, monster gang wars, a tennis match against a god of destruction, and bandidos on velociraptors—in full color?
...Yeah, we couldn’t think of anything, either.
Award-winning cartoonist Chris Hastings teams up with Dark Horse Books to bring you 232 pages of pure awesome, collecting the first three full-color story arcs of Dr. McNinja, as well as an exclusive-to-print story by Benito Cereno and Les McClaine.
Mignola and Golden continue their post–World War I vampire epic with Baltimore: The Curse Bells!
On sale: Late 2011
Since the plague began, Europe’s been overrun by vampires and demons. Lord Henry Baltimore, the only one who can put an end to these horrors, must find and kill Haigus, the creature responsible for the chaos. Rumors are circulating that he is holed up in a cloister in Austria where the nuns cannot come out and no one can go in. Another report mentions another man living in the cloister with them, a Bavarian soldier who had gone there with the promise of a cure for the plague and for vampirism. What Baltimore finds is a haven of death and black magic, and the monsters at the heart of his obsession!
Steve Niles’s Criminal Macabre returns to comics; crosses over with Eric Powell’s The Goon!
What do you get when two of comics’ most abnormal antiheroes cross paths on the bloody, zombie-plagued asphalt of Lonely Street? The face-punchingest, monster-killingest crossover in the history of Dark Horse Comics, that’s what! Goon creator Eric Powell and Criminal Macabre writer Steve Niles have fused their demented brains together to create this dysfunctional tale of supernatural mayhem and paranormal insanity. If detective of the weird Cal McDonald thinks the streets of LA are littered with the worst creatures on earth, wait till he gets a load of the unliving lurkers, slack jaws, and hoboes of Lonely Street!
Yoshitaka Amano and mink team up for Shinjuku Book II—Azul!
Following the success of Shinjuku, the creative duo reunites for another tale of destiny, danger, and hard-boiled sorcery.
Kohta Hirano’s Drifters comes to Dark Horse!
First he pitted the Catholic church against vampires and Nazis and Great Britain, bathing London in a flood of blood. But Hellsing creator Kohta Hirano still had something crazy up his sleeve when he started to pen his new series, Drifters.
Imagine a world full of elves and hobbits and dragons and orcs. Inside this world of magic and wonder, there is a great war being waged, using warriors from human history as chess pieces in a bloody, endless battle. That, in a nutshell, is Hirano’s new concept. He’s gathered up famous warriors throughout history, put them on sides of good and evil, and then turned them loose in a bloody melee of madness.
It’s pure Hirano: fun and relentless and frenetic and stylish. The many readers who were sad to see Hellsing come to an end will enjoy wading into another fashiontastic bloodbath of epic proportions.
Yasuhiro Nightow’s Bloodline Battlefront comes to Dark Horse!
Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow returns to Dark Horse with a frantic new miniseries we’re calling Bloodline Battlefront.
In Nightow’s new world, a breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They’ve lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening.
Like Trigun, Nightow’s Bloodline Battlefront has nonstop action, unbridled imagination, and a ton of strange weaponry. Should be a fun ride.
Felicia Day’s The Guild returns to comics with The Guild: Vork!
On sale: December 22, 2010
Hot off filming season four of The Guild, Felicia Day returns to comics with five brand-new one-shots spotlighting the Knights of Good!
As leader of the Knights of Good, Vork rules with an iron spreadsheet. Having devoted his life to gaming and the pursuit of Goodness, he’s earned the nickname “Goody-Two-Greaves” within the game world, but there’s more to Vork than his guild knows. Written by Day and Vork himself—actor Jeff Lewis—this hilarious one-shot delves into the man behind the rule book!
- Written by series creator Felicia Day and costar Jeff Lewis (Vork)!
Dollhouse continues in comic-book form at Dark Horse in 2011!
Dollhouse series writers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Spartacus) return to the story line they introduced in the final episodes of seasons one and two of Dollhouse, when, after a leap forward in time, we see LA in ruins after the mind-wiping Dollhouse technology has made violent, mindless automatons of the population . . . of LA? of the US? of the world? It remains unknown. Those episodes, “Epitaph One” and “Epitaph Two,” never showed us how the technology hit the population, or what happened in those terrifying moments. Now Jed and Maurissa bring the story to comics, showing the exact instant that the signal went out over cell phones, through the eyes of three of the characters from the season finales—Maggie, Zone, and Griff—and their desperate efforts to survive. This one-shot is a prelude to the upcoming comics series.
Dark Horse, USA Today, and Toshiba announce exciting original content in the next wave of DH:HD!
Beginning October 11, 2010, and running over the course of a ten-week period, Dark Horse will introduce exclusive stories published on USA Today’s website, featuring the company’s top creators and characters. Included in this exciting program are:
- “Hellboy: The Whittier Legacy,” written and drawn by Mike Mignola.
- “Serenity: Downtime,” written by Zack Whedon with art by Chris Samnee.
- “The Goon: An Irish Wake,” written and drawn by Eric Powell.
- “Conan: Kiss of the Undead,” written by Ron Marz with art by Bart Sears.
- “Mass Effect: Inquisition,” written by Mac Walters with art by Jean Diaz.
The all-new stories can be read at comics.usatoday.com, beginning with the Hellboy story “The Whittier Legacy,” written and drawn by comics legend Mike Mignola.