WhatÂ’s missing from action/adventure comics these days? Two things: action and adventure. Steve Rude and Gary Martin aim to change all that with The Moth Double-Sized Special, coming in March from Dark Horse Comics. Steve Rude (Nexus) and long-time inking collaborator Gary Martin team up to present the adventures of the worldÂ’s newest superhero. Kicking off the new Moth limited series, The Moth Double-Sized Special demonstrates ten-time comic industry award-winner RudeÂ’s mastery of the action comic, and Martin lends a hand to ink and script the tales of the circus performing and crime-fighting titular character. In The Moth, Dark Horse has allowed Steve Rude unrestricted creative freedom and Rude has responded with some of the best work of his career! In this issue, The Moth, who is living with a touring circus troop, finds himself in a battle for his very life against a savage creature known as the Lionman of Botswana. This March, Steve RudeÂ’s The Moth Double-Sized Special will show fans what adventure comics are truly about!
Moth editor Dave Land is thrilled to be working on Rude and Martin’s newest offering. “If comics fans have been missing something of late, they’re in for a surprise!” Land says. “Daring, action, and adventure are about to make a big return to comics in the form of Steve Rude’s The Moth. If you’re looking for outlaw bikers, circus clowns, African witch doctors, blood-thirsty monsters, and bearded ladies, this story is for you!”