Universal Cable Productions and Comic Book Giant Dark Horse Entertainment Sign First Look Deal

By Staff Reports Universal Cable Productions (UCP) continues to expand its powerhouse producing talent and build upon the studio’s genre footprint by signing a first-look deal with legendary comic book publisher, Dark Horse Entertainment (“The Mask,” “Hellboy”).  The deal announced today will focus on developing and producing scripted programming from their extensive comics library as well as new material.   Discussions […]

Bestselling Novelist Chuck Palahniuk Joins the Cast of Fight Club 2, the Acclaimed Comic Book Mini-series from Dark Horse Comics

By Staff Reports Timed to the launch of San Diego Comic-Con International, Dark Horse Comics announced today that bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk will be a character in the acclaimed ten issue FIGHT CLUB 2 mini series, which is written by Palahniuk, illustrated by Cameron Stewart and colored by Dave Stewart, with covers by David Mack. Issue 3 of the series, […]

SDCC 2015: Dark Horse Comics Enlists Larry Hama to pen Call of Duty: Black Ops III Comic Book Series

By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics, Activision Publishing, Inc., and Treyarch have teamed up to deliver a thrilling comic book series written by decorated comics veteran Larry Hama (G.I. Joe) and drawn by Marcelo Ferreira (Transformers, TMNT)! The Call of Duty®: Black Ops III comic book series follows an elite group of cybernetically enhanced soldiers as they wage a secret […]

HELLBOY Creator Mike Mignola & Acclaimed Novelist Christopher Golden Bring JOE GOLEM To Life Again In November 2015

By Staff Reports This November legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novelist Christopher Golden and Dark Horse Comics will unleash the first ever comic book appearance of their character Joe Golem from their novel Joe Golem and the Drowning City. A five issue Joe Golem: Occult Detective mini-series will be co-written by frequent collaborators Mignola and Golden, […]

Dark Horse Celebrates Four Year Digital Anniversary

By Staff Reports Dark Horse Digital reaches a new landmark when the digital store celebrates its fourth anniversary starting this Thursday. As a thank-you to fans, Dark Horse announces four special promotions! Have a free comic on Dark Horse! Beginning Thursday, April 23, Dark Horse will issue a two-dollar credit to all confirmed Dark Horse Digital newsletter subscribers with a […]

Dark Horse to Offer Adam Hughes Barb Wire #1 Variant to Retailers in Exchange for Star Wars #1 Covers

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Dark Horse’s number-one bounty hunter, Barb Wire, is back, and even more audacious! She’s ready to take no prisoners, and to celebrate her return, Dark Horse is offering retailers a special opportunity to get their hands on a rare variant cover. For every twenty covers of Marvel’s standard Star Wars #1 that retailers send to Dark […]

Dark Horse to Publish ‘The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot’ Hardcover Collection

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Front and center, kiddos! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comes The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot—a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag team that set you reeling with their hard-hitting series Hard Boiled! Everything you remember about being eight years old and watching monster movies […]

Drew Edward Johnson's First Creator-Owned Series, Midnight Society: The Black Lake, Comes to Dark Horse

By Staff Reports In June, Drew Edward Johnson (Wonder Woman) makes his creator-owned debut, combining intrigue, secret agents, monsters, and more in Midnight Society: The Black Lake. Forty years ago, England’s greatest adventurers cast aside their friendship, making a choice that would come to haunt humanity. Now, secret agent Matilda Finn will face the consequences of that choice as she […]

Eisner- Winning Age of Reptiles Returns with Ancient Egyptians from Dark Horse Comics

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Never has the adage “silence is golden” more appropriately applied than to the return of Ricardo Delgado’s Eisner Award–winning series, Age of Reptiles, which heads back to stands in June for Age of Reptiles: Ancient Egyptians! Written and penciled by Delgado with colors by Ryan Hill (Effigy), the gorgeous and brutal series returns, marking a bold […]

EI8HT #1 Sells Out, Goes to Second Print

By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics is proud to announce that Rafael Albuquerque and Mike Johnson’s critically acclaimed EI8HT #1 has sold out at the Diamond level and gone to a second printing. Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that […]

An Icon Returns in Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy Omnibus in September

By Staff Reports In September, there’s a whole new way to enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s beloved Astro Boy: in omnibus form! Boasting nearly seven hundred pages of content for only $19.99, Dark Horse Comics’ Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 1 features Tezuka’s most popular and influential work, detailing Astro Boy’s jet-powered, superstrong, evil-bashing adventures. Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy brings back […]

Introducing the RIGHT HAND OF DOOM Beer

By Staff Reports To celebrate the 21st anniversary of Mike Mignola’s legendary Hellboy character, Dark Horse Comics and Rogue Ales have collaborated to create the RIGHT HAND OF DOOM, a limited edition beer that will be available online beginning February 22, 2015 at www.rogue.com. “When Dark Horse Comics published the first Hellboy story 21 years ago, I never thought there’d […]

Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba Announce New Graphic Novel Two Brothers

By Staff Reports Dark Horse is proud to announce Two Brothers, the latest collaboration between Brazilian siblings Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá. Guaranteed to delight and astound, Two Brothers gives readers a deeply moving reading experience in the spirit of the twins’ previous books De:Tales and Daytripper. Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could […]

Celebrate Spring with the Return of Usagi Yojimbo

By Staff Reports While spring showers usually bring May flowers, they will bring something far more exciting this year: the triumphant return of Stan Sakai and his beloved rabbit ronin in Usagi Yojimbo #145! For the first time since February 2012, Usagi is back in his ongoing series, and there’s no stopping his adventures. Kicking off with a new story […]

Lady Killer Sells Out, Goes to Second Print Run

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Dark Horse is proud to announce that the first issue of Joëlle Jones, Jamie S. Rich, and Laura Allred’s Lady Killer has sold out at the distributor level and will receive a second printing! Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother—but she’s also a ruthless, efficient killer for hire! A brand-new original comedy series […]

Dark Horse Announces The Art Of Satoshi Kon

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—This August, Dark Horse remembers an animation legend and his works with The Art of Satoshi Kon. A director who blazed a brilliant animation career before his tragic passing in 2010, Kon is immortalized in this special hardcover volume that covers the whole of his incredible career. Encompassing everything from illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, […]

Critics and Creators Agree- EI8HT is a Hit

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Creators and critics agree: Rafael Albuquerque and Mike Johnson’s EI8HT #1 is one of the must-read comics of the year! Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can’t count on anything but his […]

Dark Horse Takes Home Multiple Diamond Gem Awards

By Staff Reports This week, Diamond Comic Distributors announced the recipients of the prestigious Diamond Gem Awards, the pinnacle of sales achievement for publishers, vendors, industry executives, creators, and more, with Dark Horse Comics receiving several accolades for its 2014 projects. Dark Horse dominated among independent publishers for the second year running, with the new launch of Dark Horse Presents […]

Ethan Young's Nanjing Brings World War II to China

By Staff Reports In August, award-winning graphic novelist Ethan Young (Tails) brings bravery in the face of an overwhelming enemy to the forefront of one of the biggest mass murders of World War II. Exploring the horrors of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, Nanjing: The Burning City focuses on two abandoned Chinese soldiers trapped in the city as they desperately […]

Farewell to Star Wars Digital Comics

By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics is sending its Star Wars comics off with a very exclusive limited offer for its digital-comics readers . . . For the final five days of 2014, Dark Horse is offering all digital Star Wars comics at 50% off. Or pick up the Farewell MegaBundle that includes every single Star Wars comic published for […]

Dark Horse Collects Sebela & Moustafa's High Crimes

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Debuting in print for the first time, High Crimes, a murder mystery written by Dead Letters scribe Christopher Sebela, is the premiere graphic novel illustrated by rising star Ibrahim Moustafa! Dark Horse will publish a stunning hardcover that collects all twelve issues of the critically acclaimed, multiple Eisner Award–nominated, and Stumptown Comics Art Award–winning Monkeybrain digital […]

Serenity: Leaves on the Wind Hits #1 on New York Times Bestseller List

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—After an amazing six-issue run, the graphic novel collection of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind has soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller list! In the film Serenity, outlaw Malcolm Reynolds and his crew revealed to the entire ’verse the crimes against humanity undertaken by the sinister Alliance government. This official follow-up from […]

Dark Horse Black Friday: Revenge of the Verse!

By Staff Reports Dark Horse Comics is rocking Black Friday madness with a very exclusive limited offer for its digital-comics readers . . . Feast your eyes on this year’s Black Friday MegaBundles. For one weekend only, you can load up on comics from your favorite creative universes for the crazy-low price of $99.99 each only on Digital.Darkhorse.com! Star Wars […]