Baltimore Comic Con: Dark Horse

September 27, 2008 on 10:03 pm | In Baltimore Comic-Con | No Comments

Publicity Director Jeremy Atkins and Senior Managing Editor Scott Alie took the stage and despite some technical problems made some exciting announcements for Dark Horse fans today at Baltimore Comic Con. Here are the highlights:

- In the Conan titles, Soloman Kane was launched this week, and Kull launches in November.
- BPRD continues basically monthly with its Lovecraftian apocalypse ideas, while Hellboy continues with its apocalyptic vision of monsters and demons. There are major changes in store for both books in the upcoming series Wild Hunt. Mike Mignola will return to write and illustrate Hellboy for the first time in four years with a one issue story coming out in the last week of October.
- Umbrella Academy will release with series 2. The first issue will be 32 pages with no ads, checking in with all the major characters. There’s a lot of violence and an excellent fight scene.
- Beam World is coming back to Dark Horse and will be featured prominently on Dark Horse’s MySpace page.
- Many online comics will be making the transition to print through Dark Horse including Achewood, Nothing Nice to Say, Wondermark, K Chronicles and Applegeeks.
- Concerning Buffy, Issue 19 will be late by at least a month. It will (hopefully) release in six weeks to wrap up the Buffy/Fray arc. Following that issue, there will be a one shot written by Jeph Loeb dealing with the almost-created Buffy Animated Series. The next storyline will have five different writers for five different issues. It will check in with Faith and Giles, Kennedy, Satsu, Andrew and Dawn. It will mainly focus on how vampires have become popular with Harmony Kendall in the forefront.
- Dark Horse has made a deal with CLAMP Studios to release Manga concurrently in American, Japanese and Kroean markets. This means that for the first time, Americans will be able to get new installments of Manga at the same time as the Japanese market.
- Star Wars: Dark Times is coming back next March. There will also be two trades released of the Star Wars: Vector crossover.
- Alien and Predator are both coming back to Dark Horse, with Alien versus Predator to come back soon.
- The Goon’s Tenth Anniversary is next March. There will be a Tenth Anniversary issue along with trades collecnting all of The Goon’s past year arc. Other special events are planned.

That’s it from Dark Horse! Stay tuned to the Convention Report for more coverage! -SS