Can't believe this didn't make
Newsarama or anything. I didn't take notes, so this is going to be...fragmentary at best.
Dark Horse is going back to horror. In a pretty big way. Lots of news from the DH Horror line panel today, anchored by Scott Allie and featuring Eric Powell, Jason Alexander, Greg Ruth, Arvid Nelson, Steve Niles and Berni Wrightson. The biggest news was the announcement of the Niles/Wrightson collaboration CITY OF OTHERS, which certainly looks intriguing and would be the first regular series work from Wrightson in some time (never ever a bad thing in my book.) Other titles announced:
Jason Alexander on the Mike Mignola-penned ABE SAPIEN miniseries. Alexander is also producing artwork for a story written by Mike Richardson (president of DH among other things.)
Eric Powell will be working on a GOON storyline called "Chinatown" which promises to be much more serious and dark in tone than his usual Goon offerings, which is fine by me. Powell is quite able to offer stories with gravity and real drama, though lots of readers seem to be taken aback by that. There's also a miniseries called GOON: NOIR which will be written and illustrated by a rotating cast, including Steve Niles/Ryan Sook and a few others who I'm totally forgetting and Mike Ploog, which'll be a real treat.
Greg Ruth has a new story entitled SUDDEN GRAVITY which also looks like it'll be worth checking out, if his work on FREAKS OF THE HEARTLAND is any indication.
Steve Niles' Cal MacDonald character is moving back over to Dark Horse and will be run through a series of continuing minis.
Kelley Jones will be adding some pages to the THIRTEENTH SON trade and be creating a follow-up miniseries: THIRTEENTH SON OF THE THIRTEENTH SON. At least I think that's what it was.
Arvid Nelson and Juan Ferrerya are continuing REX MUNDI at Dark Horse. The first issue of the Dark Horse series (#19 in the story, though) is out next month. The previous trades will be re-collected and given new dressings for their printing at Dark Horse.
THE DARK HORSE BOOK OF MONSTERS has a bunch of work from a bunch of folks that you will probably want to at least look over.
Mike Mignola will no longer be doing any Hellboy art, but will be focusing on the writing side of things. Scott Allie joked that "he's working even harder on the writing to make sure that he's earning his check every month." Don't know if he's still doing covers or not. I'll miss his art, but what I've seen of Duncan Fregredo's art on HELLBOY looks pretty stellar.
Overall, there's a firm commitment to more horror books coming out of Dark Horse, going so far as to desiring to be "The EC of the 2000s". More power to 'em.
Comments
Was there any mention of the new Buffy season 8 comic by Dark Horse?Did they show any covers?It was hinted at Entertainment Weekly that there would be some type of presentation would be given.
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/07/the_new_buffy_c.html
"From comics she was born, and to comics she shall return: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's post-cancellation adventures will soon begin anew -- penned by Joss Whedon himself -- in the pages of Dark Horse Comics. Here's an exclusive cover image (by artist Georges Jeanty) from issue No. 1. As you can see, she's kept in shape during her hiatus. (Dark Horse will debut No. 1 at Comic-Con this week.)"
Posted by: Kenny | July 23, 2006 11:09 AM
No particular mention of that, other than the art team and that it was going to be 10-12 (?) issues or so and that Whedon wasn't going to be writing all of them, but would be on outlines.
Posted by: Matt M. | July 23, 2006 03:54 PM
Thanks for letting me know.It's early days still so probably not surprising that there wasn't much info.
I think the artist,Georges Jeanty is just starting on drawing the first issue.
Posted by: Kenny | July 23, 2006 04:17 PM