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Dark Horse Comics Previews: 10/30/24 New Releases

Anansi Boys I #5

Writer: Neil Gaiman, Marc Bernardin

Artist: Shawn Martinbrough

Colorist: Christopher Sotomayor

Letterer: Jim Campbell

Cover Artist: David Mack

#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman joins forces with Eisner nominated Adora writer Marc Bernardin and Thief of Thieves co-creator Shawn Martinbrough to adapt Gaiman’s Locus and British Fantasy Award-winning novel as a comic book series for the first time—and soon to be a television show on Amazon Prime!

As Fat Charlie nurses an epic hangover, and deals with the mystery woman who shared his bed after the night of mournful reverie, Spider heads to the Grahame Coats Agency to fill in for his brother. There, Spider gets into the kind of trouble only a trickster scion could muster—trouble that poor Fat Charlie will have to deal with.

The Carlyle School for Kings #1

Writer: Nelson Greaves

Artist: Davide Castelluccio

Colorist: Francesca Vivaldi

Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic

Cover Artist: Davide Castelluccio

Emmelene Heron is the daughter of traitors, but even she cannot be denied entrance to the Carlyle School for Kings. For thousands of years, the academy has opened its doors to the best and brightest young people in the Kingdom. There, they are trained in matters of heart, strength, and mind, and the one who is deemed most exceptional will be crowned king for the next thirty years, when the King Cycle repeats. This decree was enacted by Godwit himself, to ensure the King is one young enough that hope and idealism still thrive within them—but if they want hope and idealism, they invited the wrong girl.

Kill All Immortals #4

Writer: Zack Kaplan

Artist: Fico Ossio

Colorist: Thiago Rocha

Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Cover Artist: Oliver Barrett

A Viking never vacates a fight, wicked horrors and all, for only a true warrior enters Valhalla. Armed with the shocking truth about her family’s immortality, Frey questions her lack of agency in her family’s past. But when she is trapped by her father, she faces the ultimate test: to sacrifice her lover’s life over her freedom.

The Magic Order 5 #2

Writer: Mark Millar

Artist: Matteo Buffagni

Colorist: Giovanna Niro

Cover Artist: Matteo Buffagni

Cordelia Moonstone was raised to believe her family was all the stood between the world we know and eternal darkness. But has it all been in her imagination? Is she really a woman with serious mental health problems and the monsters only exist in her head?

Night Club 2 #3

Writer: Mark Millar

Artist: Juanan Ramírez

Colorist: Fabiana Mascolo

Letterer: Clem Robins

Cover Artist: Juanan Ramírez

The Night Club was started when three best friends tried to make the most of being vampires and decided to use their powers for good. Now they’re split down the middle and Sam has become the leader of a new gang of vampires he’s created out of the school’s worst bullies.

'Patra #3

Writer: James Robinson

Artist: Scott Kolins

Letterer: Jim Campbell

Cover Artist: Scott Kolins

From the celebrated creators behind Starman and The Flash comes this new supernatural series about slasher monsters, mad scientists, and cult movie-inspired horror.

The psychopathic savagery of Jeremy Jones is unleashed in a small town bringing bloody carnage to one family. At the same time Patra learns her destiny from her dead sister’s ghost which puts her on the path she fears the most . . . in order to save two small girls that Jeremy holds captive, she must go from hunted to hunter. Jeremy Jones must die!

Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III #11

Writer: Daniel José Older

Artist: Caìo Filipe

Colorist: Michael Atiyeh

Letterer: Comicraft

Cover Artist: Harvey Tolibao

Eriadu is under siege! The fate of the planet lies with the ruling Tarkin family, and nobody knows whose side they’re on. Will the Tarkins join forces with the Republic resistance or capitulate to the vile Nihil? While the bureaucrats wheel and deal, Padawan Ram Jomaram gathers a team of underdogs to launch a rescue mission deep within the Occlusion Zone!

Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

Writer: James Asmus, Jim Festante

Artist: Abylay Kussainov

Colorist: Ellie Wright

Letterer: Taylor Esposito

Cover Artist: Abylay Kussainov

Survival Street is an unrepentant action satire tearing through a dystopia packed with economic and humanistic cautionary tales.

It’s Blood, and Sugar-Free Sex Magic when Birdie and Gurgle crash the peaceful home of former castmate Spellya Spellington, but they aren’t the only ones blazing into town. Meanwhile, Tony and Herbert try to free some ‘canceled’ old stars from Hollywood’s Problem Attic.

A candy coating of pop culture madness, humor, cartoonishly absurd hyper-violence, and just enough hope to keep holding on.