Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, and Michael Avon Oeming Team Up for ‘Ghost of a Ghost’
Dark Horse Comics announced Ghost of a Ghost, a four-issue limited series written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming, with colors by Taki Soma and letters by Clem Robins. The series spins out of Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's 2023 Giant Robot Hellboy, following Agent Jian, a superspy who was exposed to enkeladite, a radioactive substance known to cause monstrous mutations, and has since been working with a mysterious spy ring to keep it out of the wrong hands. The catch is that figuring out exactly whose hands are the wrong ones turns out to be harder than expected. The series is set in the 1960s and blends psychedelic spy-fi aesthetics with Hellboy Universe mythology.
"At a convention a couple of years ago he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and explained to us what he had in mind for this character that he'd introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy, and then we got to work on realizing it," said Roberson. "But from the very beginning we were all totally in sync with the vision that Mignola had for the character of Jian and her story, a jet-setting spy-fi thriller in the swinging Sixties, but approached in a way that we had never really seen used in a Hellboy Universe story before."
"We're bringing a fun 1960s retro spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if you have half as much fun reading it as we did making it, you're going to love it," said Oeming.
Ghost of a Ghost #1 (of 4) is on sale September 23 with a main cover by Oeming and Dave Johnson, with subsequent variant covers by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho.
