Many of you may still be full-to-bursting with pizza, nachos and hot wings from yesterday's Super Bowl festivities, but that doesn't mean you can't consume some brain food today! Feed your mind with news you can use about Dark Horse Comics! I'm your friendly neighborhood publicity coordinator Jim Gibbons and I'm here with a heaping helping of links to the best DH-related news pieces from last week. Sit back, relax and get ready to dig in to some healthy, hearty linkage!

Dark Horse Presents
Dark Horse President and Publisher, "Mile High" Mike Richardson, spoke with MTV Geek last week about the upcoming relaunch of Dark Horse Presents. The interview is chockfull of little teases about upcoming creators that any and every comic fan is going to want to check out.

"I really, really, really wish that I could tell you all the people we have signed up to do this because whatever excitement you have for this book… If you do, it would increase ten-fold," Richardson said. "But if I start saying this, my marketing department will kill me, because they've got it all planned up to make announcements. There are some sequels to some very big books was started out in Dark Horse Presents. There are some creators, the biggest creators in the industry that will appear."
Side note: Everyone in the DH marketing department are either trained assassins or samurai warriors. We're a deadly bunch.

Richardson also spoke with Salt Lake City Weekly about Dark Horse's 25th Anniversary. "We have a number of programs set to celebrate our 25th anniversary, which is really pretty amazing," Richardson relayed. "Out of the hundreds of comic book companies that have existed since the '30s, only a handful have lasted 25 years. In honor of our birthday, we're relaunching Dark Horse Presents in a bigger and brighter package and I'm extremely excited by thought of it."

Mysterymen
If you missed it last week on the Dark Horse blog, make sure to check out this ICV2 article about the return of Bob Burden's Mysterymen. “Bob’s misfit superheroes have always been a favorite of mine, and we’ve had great success with them in the past,” said Dark Horse president Mike Richardson. “I can’t wait to have them back in the pages of Dark Horse Presents.”

Dark Horse Director of Public Relations Jeremy "The Atkins Diet" Atkins can't wait either. He waxed lyrical about the Mysterymen and the Flaming Carrot over at his site Seen All Over. "For a kid like me, living in Indiana, and my interests slowly moving away from comics and more towards music and skateboarding, it was titles like Flaming Carrot, Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman, and another classic Dark Horse title, Paul Chadwick’s Concrete, that helped me to survive my 'superhero slump'… To see these characters return in the soon-to-be-relaunched Dark Horse flagship title, Dark Horse Presents, I have to say I’m excited. After all, there is a good chance I wouldn’t still be reading (or working) in comics today if it weren’t for Flaming Carrot, Citrus Man or The Shoveler."

Scary Godmother
Last week, the Geek Mom blog announced that Jill Thompson's much lauded Scary Godmother would be getting a second collection. Filled with all the black and white comic book stories starring the red-haired witch, Scary Godmother: Comic Book Stories will be out in July and chockfull of fun tales!

Cover premieres and previews
-IGN gave readers their first look at #2.

-Newsarama showcased the first pages from Kull: The Hate Witch #4.

-ComicBookResources.com premiered the covers to Hellboy: Being Human and Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #4.

-Wired's Underwire blog ran pages from both Hellboy: The Sleeping and The Dead #2 and Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #1.

-io9.com took a look inside Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1, as well as the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, with a peek at the exciting new Star Wars book.

-io9.com also showcased pages from volume nine of the Creepy archives, featuring a science fiction take on literary icon Dorian Gray.

-Comics Alliance ran down their favorite cover art from the month of January. B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth: Gods #1, Buffy #40 and Magnus, Robot Fighter #2 made the list.

-CBR's Robot 6 blog premiered both the Guy Davis and Gregory Manchess covers to Solomon Kane: Red Shadows #2. They're action-packed!

Reviews
-CBR enjoyed Hellboy: The Sleeping and The Dead #2: "Another winner from the Mignola-verse."

-Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #1 received some great reviews last week, including two from Newsarama and one from Comic Vine. From 'Rama: "John Severin proves that he can still deliver fantastic artwork, with the same skill and detail that he has always possessed. He brings yet another different feel to the world that Mike Mignola created."

-ComicAttack.net thrilled to Kull: The Hate Witch #3: "This has been a great book, and I have really been enjoying the artwork. The scenery especially has been top notch and the covers are nothing to sneeze at either. If you're a fan of this genre, do yourself a favor and pick it up now!"

-The Weekly Crisis had good things to say about Conan: Road of Kings #2: "This book continues the tradition of being just a damn fine Conan book."

A few more…
-Newsarama interviewed Cole Haddon about The Strange Case of Hyde.

-By way of G4's Fresh Ink and Comics Alliance, LA Times' Hero Complex blogger Geoff Boucher recommended Let Me In Crossroads as his "pick of the week."

-Comics Alliance also wrote a nice little recommendation of John Stanley's work. CA columnist Douglas Wolk relays: "I am writing this installment of 'Don't Ask! Just Buy It!' on an airplane. As people were boarding, I was sitting in the window seat reading one of the recent Tubby reprints. The guy in the opposite window seat looked over and said 'Is that one of the old Little Lulu comics? I haven't seen one of those in fifty years!' Take-home lesson: a person outside comics culture can recognize John Stanley's work at a distance of fifteen feet and fifty years."

-MTV Geek wrote a quick piece on upcoming prose titles Supernatural Noir and Damned Highway.

As always, thanks for checking in for another installment of "Dark Horse in the Headlines." Same time next week! Be there! Till then, please enjoy this "Darth Vader versus Aliens" image (by David Hillman and Mark McKenna) nabbed from Comics Alliance. May the Force be with you!

---JIM Gibbons