Posts tagged with "Horsepower"
Horsepower February 2025: Steve Foxe and James Tynion IV Talk About "True Weird"
Feb. 21, 2025
“True Weird.” We landed on the words because they don’t quite sit right in the mind. “True” isn’t necessarily synonymous with “real,” and “weird” makes for a vast umbrella, covering alien abductions, medical oddities, inexplicable events, and, yes, monsters. Let This One Be a Devil is the first of our new foray into True Weird series focusing on what most people might call cryptids, but its subject is weird even within that outré category. There... Read More...
Horsepower January 2025: Kyle Starks Talks True Crime and "Those Not Afraid"
Jan. 8, 2025
There’s something undeniably fascinating about Serial Killers.And you know what? I’m not completely certain on what the attraction is. Is it the idea that there’s that sort of human predator existing out there? Is it that the animal part of brain is inherently attracted to danger and the macabre?Personally, I believe we love hearing these terrible, sordid, upsetting stories as a sort of subconscious safety preparation. We won’t go down the dark alley like that... Read More...
Horsepower May 2017: Dragon Age: The Knight Errant Authors Answer ''How Do You Train to Write?''
May 1, 2017
Writers Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir discuss their writing process and working with Bioware and Dark Horse Comics to bring Dragon Age: Knight Errant to the page. Read More...
Horsepower April 2017: Cecil Castellucci ''Hobo''
April 3, 2017
Soupy Leaves Home writer Cecil Castelluci pens an essay about her fascination with trains and the stories of hoboes. Read More...
Horsepower March 2017: Your Guide to Henchgirl
March 23, 2017
<strong><em>Mary Posa hates her job. She works long hours for little pay, no insurance, and worst of all, no respect. Her coworkers are jerks, and her boss doesn’t appreciate her. He’s also a supervillain. Cursed with a conscience, Mary would give anything to be something other than a Henchgirl.</em></strong> Read More...
Bob Burden Reminisces About 30 Years of Dark Horse Comics
Feb. 3, 2016
I came aboard with Dark Horse fairly early on. They were then just a small company, start-up company, five guys in an office at the end of a hallway. Read More...
HORSEPOWER: The Fifth Beatle
Dec. 9, 2013
I held my mother’s hand as cancer severed the last threads of her life. In that moment, her heart stopped beating—and mine broke. And beyond the clicking of IVs administering useless painkillers, and the humming of monitors with nothing left to monitor, I could hear music. Read More...
June 2013 Horsepower
June 1, 2013
<p>There is no greater celebration of comic-book fandom than a comic convention.</p> <p>When I was a kid growing up in Reno, Nevada, all of my favorite comic-book creators seemed worlds away—mythical creative geniuses holed up in think tanks somewhere in New York, or cities where entertainment was not only an industry, it was <em>the</em> industry—toiling over pages late into the night under the light of a desk lamp. Other than the grueling hours, my romantic boyhood... Read More...
No Foolish Heroics, Please.
May 2, 2013
I’m so excited to be working on superhero comics for Dark Horse. As the very name of the company implies . . . these superheroes ain’t no boy scouts in spandex. They’re a high-octane blend of the damaged, quixotic heroes of pulp and detective fiction and the do-gooders in capes from the Golden and Silver Ages. Read More...
House of Gold and Bones - HorsePower April 2013 by Corey Taylor
April 2, 2013
I came across my first comic book when I was five years old. It was a crusty, beat-up Spider-Man comic from the seventies; the cover was torn, the spine was a joke, and the pages were so yellow you’d have thought someone was chain-smoking around the thing. It was more pulp than fiction, really. But I was officially hooked. Read More...