Dark Horse Comics has announced Evan Dorkin’s Blackwood: Library Edition is coming this October to comic shops and bookstores. The two volumes in the series so far will be collected with Dorkin writing and art by Veronica Fish and Andy Fish with letters by Greg McKenna.
So what’s Blackwood about?
When four teenagers with haunted pasts enroll in Blackwood College—a school that trains students in the occult—their desire to enhance their supernatural abilities and bond with others is hampered by an undead dean’s curse, ghosts in their dorm, a mischievous two-headed mummy-chimp, a plague of mutant insects, and the discovery of an ancient evil that forces our heroes to undergo a crash course in the occult for the sake of the world.
Check out the cover below.
For more on this news, read the official press release below.
MILWAUKIE, Ore., (May 25, 2022)— Dark Horse Books presents Blackwood: Library Edition, collecting the two volumes in the series so far. Written by multi-Eisner award-winning author, Evan Dorkin, and illustrated by Veronica Fish and Andy Fish, Blackwood, the supernatural fantasy about a magical murder in a sorcery school, will soon be available in a deluxe, oversized hardcover format.
When four teenagers with haunted pasts enroll in Blackwood College—a school that trains students in the occult—their desire to enhance their supernatural abilities and bond with others is hampered by an undead dean’s curse, ghosts in their dorm, a mischievous two-headed mummy-chimp, a plague of mutant insects, and the discovery of an ancient evil that forces our heroes to undergo a crash course in the occult for the sake of the world.
Blackwood: Library Edition will be available at comic stores October 12, 2022 and in bookstores October 25, 2022. It is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop and bookstore. Blackwood: Library Edition will retail for $39.99.
Praise for Blackwood:
“It’s a great horror comic with lots of occult mystery, and the creative team of Dorkin and Veronica and Andy Fish are about as strong as you get in mainstream monthly comics. Blackwood could be a contender for series of the year, and I can’t wait to read what happens next.”—Comicbook.com
“Listen … I’m all in on this crazy sh*t. I was basically all in when I read ‘Evan Dorkin,’ but after the first several pages, I’m all in.”—Comic Bastards
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